Caelum Valtaris offered a gentle defense. “Your Highness, is it possible that it was a wolf’s howl?”
A dog’s bark was one thing, but to call it unpleasant?
Being criticized by his mate was like pouring ice water on a peacock mid-display—his heart shattered into pieces.
Caelum was deeply wounded.
Aurelia Delensar glanced at him. “It sounded exactly like the little dog I had as a child. How could it have been a wolf?”
“Besides,” she added, cupping her face with a self-assured smile, “if there were wolves in the forest, they wouldn’t have resisted coming to devour me at night!”
Caelum: “…”
If it weren’t for his reluctance to frighten the delicate princess to tears, he would have dragged her into a cave and devoured her countless times already.
He would have licked every inch of her, m
