Chapter 76. Plight of the Forest Kingdom

Lyra POV

“Good morning.” Cassian pulls me closer and lifts my chin with his finger, meeting my lips.

“Mm, good morning,” I mumble.

“I’m sorry to wake you,” he adds. “You look so gorgeous sleeping naked in my arms. I could stay in this tent with you forever.”

“Well, people would probably start to talk,” I joke, but I feel the same way, and he knows it.

He’d better know it after last night. I lost track of how many times we made love, but I’m pretty sure we kept people in the tents near us awake as well. Just thinking of it, I can feel the blush rise in my cheeks.

“No one cares,” he says, reading his mind, or maybe my beet-red face.

“I hope not.”

Daylight has yet to filter over the horizon,