My headache started to fade away and I took a few deep breaths, but I still couldn't remember what I had just been doing or what was going on.
In fact, I was still having trouble remembering who I was.
And then it came back to me as I murmured, “I'm the king's mistress. And he's marrying another woman...."
“Yes, I know, my lady," he said softly, his breathing heavy.
Who was he again? He looked so familiar. His dark eyes and hair, his god-like handsome face, the intensity of his gaze…and all of those hot muscles pressing against me.
Finally, pieces and bits of information came to me, a name started to form in my head, but I had difficulties pronouncing it…Th-Th-Theron? Thalen? Theo!
“And you are my guard." I said this to him as if I was unsure, but he nodded.
“Like all of us here at
