Secrets

He would need to make her change her mind before that time, and the day was approaching faster than he wanted it to.

The guests would start arriving tomorrow, and the palace would be filled with people again, something he wasn't looking forward to. Crowded places made him feel suffocated, and his coronation would bring that much of a crowd. He was angry—so angry he wanted to numb it before returning to their chamber.

He would make his presence around her less obvious so she wouldn't feel like he was suffocating her with his clinginess.

But God, how would he survive without talking to her and laughing or touching her? She wanted her own space, whatever the hell that implied he didn't know. And he had been thinking hard about what that implied the whole time in the dining hall.

When they arrived at the winter frozen garden, Lucian angrily kicked a boulder before he took one of the goblets from Zane and began to gulp it down his throat.