AVALINE

From the way I'm clinging to him, obviously, I have no plans to walk by myself. And he sees that too. He silently carried me out of our room.

I’m going in and out of consciousness but can hear bits of his conversation with his brothers. He was telling them to go back to sleep. Eiran said he wasn’t asleep while Alaric muttered a “Thank fuck!”

Czar sat us both on the sofa in the gazebo on the far side of the pool area.

I could feel his unfamiliarity with this situation—it’s in ...