His reply wasn't what she had expected.
"I'm not going to betray her."
Her heart felt like it had been sank in a bucket of cold water.
"I'm sure she will understand, if you tell her, your Majesty." She said quietly. "Besides, this is necessary."
He threw her a look that she couldn't interpret but it was nothing pleasant, nothing like the way she wanted him to be looking at her.
"Understand what?"
She took a slow step back, her bare feet rubbing against the small smooth rocks beneath them, the silent sound blending with the sound of her breathing, as his frame slowly towered over her like an uprising shadow backing the moon.
He was standing up.
Why was he standing up?!
"Tell me. Understand what? Understand that I have to lay with my Right hand woman consistently because I survived on being intimate with her. Isn't it enough that I am cursed?"
"This is also one of your curses, Eli." She responded, her voice low, a frown etching into her face.
