They were close, very close she could feel the heat leaving his skin. She was in her nightmare. A very light cotton dress that didn't seem like enough barricade between them.
"Pardon me, I think I missed something." She said, still unable to believe Cedric Von Drakkar apologized to her of his own free will.
Cedric's hold around her waist relaxed a bit. It was harder saying it the second time. He didn't know the last time he apologized to someone. He had a faint memory of the day he begged Eleanor to stop the servants from whipping the day she tried to scar his face because of Astrid.
He had begged in the distant past to survive but his cries were never heard. The word sorry was something truly foreign to him. "I am sorry for not being able to protect you as your husband. I failed in my duty to you." He replied