We are sitting at the island in the kitchen eating after cleaning up, and I can't hold it in anymore. "What did you need to talk about?"
"There are two things actually," he says. "First, there is a small gathering tomorrow in the palace that I need to attend, and I was hoping you might want to come. You haven't been here that long, so if you're not ready I can delay it, but I'm being selfish and hoping you'll come because I hate these things."
He says it so fast that I have to laugh before responding, "Of course I'll come. I don't have any experience of going to these kinds of events without my mother, but I assume I'll really enjoy it!"
He wraps a hand around the nape of my neck to pull me close and places a kiss on my forehead and I swear I melt on the spot.
"What's the second thing?
