While I was deciding on how to refuse him, Prince Cassius looked at me with a gentle smile in his eyes, his blue eyes shining with joy. "Amelia, I understand your concerns. I am glad to know that you are so upright in following all the rules and teaching, but I just want the woman I love to call me by my name."
"Am I asking for too much?" he asked.
I stared at him silently, not knowing what to say to him.
Sensing that I was still hesitating to call him by his name, he sighed. "Fine, how about this? When we are with everybody, call me Prince Cassius. But when we are alone, can you call me just Cassius?"
As soon as I heard his words, I immediately froze.
His request reminded me of Killian, and how he had asked the same thing from me. That beautiful memory flashed through my mind, and immediately, a smile appeared on my face, but soon, recalling the pain of his words last night, I stopped smiling.
