Chapter 99. The Hope of Tomorrow Is Her (2)

She indicated for him to sit down and took a seat too.

When the first course was served, the alarmed look was back on her face. Troy grinned. She had this solemn look on her face that seemed to forbid laughter, but the grinning he just couldn’t help. She just kept surprising him tonight.

“Guilty pleasure of yours, Your Majesty?” he asked, putting a fork through the chocolate covered brownie in front of him and raising it to his lips.

“My apologies, Your Highness!” she said, getting up again. “I’ll have the kitchen serve the first course-”

“Seems like this is your usual first course, Aria,” he said, taking her hand in his.

She squeezed his hand when he said her name and they were back to that stupid look that didn’t mean anything, because how could it? She hardly knew the man.

“Sit down, Aria,” he said softly and again she squeezed his hand.

Coming back to herself, she immediately pulled it away.

“If you try to run again, I’ll do more t