When I returned to Lust, Eros waited on the palace stairs for me. The wind blew his soft brown hair into his face, and all I wanted to do was run my fingers through it. But before I could, he grasped my hand. “We have a meeting with the commanders in five minutes. Where have you been?”
Our guards opened the palace doors for us. We walked into the large foyer decorated with six chandeliers. I stared down at my feet, watching the stone floors underneath them. “I was just talking to Dr. U.”
“On Sunday morning?” he asked, his voice tense. “Why’d you need to see her today?”
After shrugging my shoulders and responding with a curt “No particular reason,”—even though there was definitely a particular reason—I followed Eros into the meeting room.
“No particular reason,”The ceilings were tall, t
