After nearly gaining a migraine working with her father all morning and into the early afternoon, she was relieved when he told her she was finished for the day, but that didn’t stop her from running up to her room to grab her bow.
She made it back down to the main entrance of the castle when she noticed a being leaning up against the wall next to the door, “You didn’t think you’d leave without me did you, Ayla?”
She almost wondered if she would regret letting him call her by her name without a title with the way her body shivered by the way he said her name, “I wouldn’t dream of it, Thorin.” She brushed by him, Tama hot on her heels, her mind flashing back to him in her room the night before, but she quickly squashed the image, “I know you said it would be better than sleeping on the fo
