Elle didn't know what to do. On one hand she knows she has to move on another she was stiffened in her spot. But if she moved, would Magnus finally release his hold on her? She could tell for sure that he wouldn't hesitate to let her leave the castle if she refuses him now. Not that she feared losing the place to go back to, she feared to never be beside Magnus anymore.
The man who had gently saved her during all those dangerous time, the one who had showed her complete and genuine kindness which she hadn't felt ever since she left the slums. She wasn't sure if she would ever meet someone as lovely as him to her life again if she let him go.
Her hands slowly clenched toward his arms while Magnus eyed her expression. He could tell she had made her mind to stay and his grin reached from one end of his lips to the other. His eyes turned crescent as he picked her chin by his index finger and inched forward to plant a small peck on her cheeks.
