Bound to the Dark King
Then, with a playful twinkle in his eye, he asked, "What brings you here, Your Highness?"
I wrinkled my nose at him, teasingly. "Can we stick to being informal? Call me Ezinne."
He shook his head, his expression half-amused, half-serious. "Unless you have a wish to be offered my head on a platter. I would pass."
I shrugged, casting a furtive glance Malik’s way. He stood bare-chested in the middle of the training field, his skin gleaming with sweat under the morning sun. The play of muscles across his torso was a mesmerizing sight; they rippled with each movement, tightening and relaxing as he demonstrated a combat move. Those same arms that had held me so closely last night— arms that were s