Aurelia Delensar blinked slowly, her voice laced with nonchalance. "Oh, so you don't have a room."
Caelum Valtaris softened his breath, waiting for the princess's decision. Every motion of Aurelia’s seemed magnified in his eyes—the flutter of her lashes, the rise and fall of her chest like a budding flower, the way her teeth gently pressed into her lower lip. His thoughts wandered recklessly, imagining time freezing in that moment, just the two of them together. He could die happily in that eternity.
But alas, time moved on after a mere second.
His mistress decided not to reward her knight with any generosity.
"You’ll be on watch tonight, Caelum. Do your best ^v^," Aurelia chirped, her tone light but dismissive. She considered patting his shoulder for encouragement, but the thought of
