Kapitel 288: Yet again

Evie's heart thundered inside her chest as he took her cloak off. Oh my…

Then without a warning, he swooped her up into his arms again, causing her breath to catch. She missed this. Him, carrying her like this as he moved fluidly, so gracefully with his breath-taking vitality charging the air.

And just like that, as he put her on the bed and staring down at her with those intense blue flames in his eyes, the protest that Evie had prepared which was right at the tip of her tongue and about to verbalise had all died on the spot. He had not even done anything yet and already, he had pierced through her composure, surely and completely.