The Emperor seemed to have been caught off guard by our kiss. He had not planned for it to happen, and he was not used to feeling like he was not in total control of a situation - or himself.
I used that to my advantage; that was something Rin had taught me to do, which I was extremely grateful of as Caius tried to straighten himself out.
He cleared his throat, and mumbled an agreement - he would explain himself to me, because he couldn’t continue to tease me.
“I believe you mentioned me joining you for lunch, Emperor? Perhaps now would be a good time for that - you seem to have quite an appetite at the moment.”
He cleared his throat again, and looked past me to the door I had been led through when I first arrived.
We were the only people in this courtyard, and I think that he would h
