Kiss Of Snow: Royal Hearts Book Two by Briggs Elizabeth

Author:Briggs, Elizabeth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elizabeth Briggs Books
Published: 2020-08-12T16:00:00+00:00

Twenty

Lily

As night fell, Danzin sat opposite me at the small table in a corner of the Gilbrook Castle garden. A fire blazed merrily in a pit nearby, keeping the worst of the chill away, and candlelight twinkled all around us. Grimelda had really outdone herself with the atmosphere of romance tonight. But I was growing very tired of this ridiculous seven-suitor courtship, and had decided it was time to begin its end.

The small flame of a candle flickered between us, and I resisted the temptation to blow it out. I didn’t harbor romantic feelings for either of the two men who’d made my shortlist—there by virtue of being the least bad of the choices. I planned to share one more evening with each of them before I made my decision as to who would be my husband.

Regret trickled between the strands of my irritation at this farce. These men, all seven of them, didn’t deserve this either. Being paraded in front of me, a woman who didn’t love them—who couldn’t possibly ever love one of them—was surely not what they wanted in life. After all, I was taking their potential happiness from them. One of them would never find the person who would truly love them if I trapped him here with me.

But melancholy wasn’t the point of this evening. I shook my head to banish it and refocused on Lord Danzin just as he asked me a question and looked at me with interest, waiting for my answer.

“I’m sorry,” I asked. “Could you repeat that?”

“I asked if you’d like to accompany on a walk into the forest tomorrow. I should see if I can replace some of the herb I use to make that tincture I administered to Lord Vasso…” He paused, his expression momentarily startled. “I mean, not that I’m anticipating needing to remedy more than one poisoning, but…” He stopped talking altogether and nudged his glasses back up his nose, his cheeks a little pink.

“I understand,” I said. “It’s difficult to think of much but the welfare of Lord Vasso right now, isn’t it?” A momentary pang of guilt echoed through me at using Vasso to explain away my own distraction. “And, of course, it goes without saying that we are all very grateful to you for your quick thinking and your ability to provide such a quick remedy. The medic was very impressed when he arrived.”

Keane had told me the medic reported that he would have been far too late to do anything at all for Vasso, and that Danzin’s quick thinking had saved his life. And just like that, my thoughts were on Keane again.

I hadn’t meant to think of him at all, but he plagued my thoughts. Memories of the kiss wouldn’t leave me alone. The softness of his lips. The strength in his arms as he held me. The simultaneous feel of desperation versus restraint, like Keane had wanted more, but wouldn’t allow himself to try.

His harsh rejection had come without warning, and it hurt even as I acknowledged it was probably for the best.

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