The King’s Seduction
I gasp, feigning surprise.
He pauses, fingers still grasping the curtain. His gaze sweeps over me, painfully intentful as the drink in the sight of me wearing this small nightdress. It’s my first weapon of seduction, to disarm him, to lure him in. It seems to be working, blistering blue eyes blazing over, lips patting slightly as he exhales long and slow.
"There are a lot of guards out tonight, so I had no other choice but to come into your room to speak with you,” he says after a moment of heavy silence, tone flat and distracted.