A light half-smile, an icy look and a deadly calm:
“I warned you, Kari. You made a choice.
I turned away, Caesar instantly pressed me to him, not allowing me to forget for a moment that he was near, and already forever. I touched his fingers around my waist, slid my fingers along his arm, veins in my palm, fingers ... It turned out to be incredibly difficult for me to accept that we are now together, and not as temporary allies, forced spouses or a single team, but a man and a woman ... A dead goblin, but somehow I still didn’t perceive myself as a woman at all.
“I understand that it’s difficult,” he leaned over, touched my hair with his lips, gently moved the kiss to my temple, and lower, sliding down my cheek.
Do you really understand how hard it is to be a woman? I quipped.
He smil
