It was quiet for a moment and I got worried about a moment that maybe I had overstepped some of his boundaries... or maybe it was a sore subject, because his body stiffened up under mine.
Slowly, I rose up from his chest, so I could look into his face, to see how bad it was, but to my surprise, he just looked lost in thought.
"Patrick?"
I softly tried to pull him out of thought. His eyes shot to my face as I laid a reassuring hand over his.
"If you don't want to, you don't need to talk about it."
He shook his head as he answered.
"No, it's okay... I think you should know the full story. No one outside my family knows everything that happened... well, not even my whole family knows what happened... the only people that know everything are my mother and the emperor."
Our fingers inter
