The next few meetings went over much easier than the first two, though her father’s tense interactions never went away even as he walked out the door. He even went as far to say that she could finish the meetings without him.
This left her alone with Thorin who was finally slowly relaxing.
She gave it a few minutes of comfortable silence before looking up at him through her lashes, “Thorin…”
He instantly zeroed in on her, his emerald eyes connecting with her violet ones, “Yes, my Queen?” For some reason the way he said this, she blushed hard and when he noticed, he smirked, “Do you need something?”
Pulling her eyes from him to help herself think clearly, she looked back down at the papers on the desk she had been slowly working through so she had less to do the next day, “You seemed u
