Just before we reach the Great Hall, Milo comes to a stop, so I do the same.
Kenton glances back at me, eyebrows furrowed with a strange, new kind of concern. I have a feeling his opinion of me has changed since my outburst in the throne room. “Everything okay?”
I glance at Milo, who asks Kenton, “Could you just… give us a minute?”
Kenton glances around as if checking to see whether anyone is watching who might scold him later, then nods. “The Great Hall is just through these doors. I’ll see you both inside.”
The moment he disappears behind the doors, Milo grabs me and kisses the daylights out of me.
That, I certainly wasn’t expecting.
I melt at the touch of his lips, burying my fingertips into his long, silky hair and arching myself against him as he presses one hand into the small
