Chapter 91. Reading

DOVE

The plan was starting to come together; it was a noticeable push for us, for our small world. The queen of the slums and the cruelest king of all, such a disastrous couple and yet so full of spark.

I looked at my husband with my eyes fixed on his, staring at his face with the passion that revealed the need to get back to the game. The espionage, the tricks, and the weak points would make us have to separate again, even if it was for less than a day.

The time without the warmth of his arms felt so eternal, that incredible feeling of security that only he could provide me.

“I will miss you,” he said, whispering without any eloquence. He kissed my forehead and then my lips. “It’ll only be a few hours,” he smiled with his usual perversity that made me shiver.

I returned that long kiss to extract every last minute of time. He squeezed me between his arms.

“Promise me you’ll take good care of yourself more than last time,” I said softly, stroking