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CHAPTER 53: What Caspian Doesn't Say

Author: Romance Addict
last update publish date: 2026-04-05 19:35:15
That night Caspian and I ate alone in our chambers.

Not a feast. Not ceremony. Just food on a table by the window with the lights of Thorncross spread below us and the bond doing what it always did in the quiet between us, filling the space that words left empty.

He had been controlled all day. Perfectly. Every meeting, every briefing, every tactical decision. His two centuries of rule showing in every measured word, every precise gesture.

The control had a cost. I felt it through the bond like
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