My headache started to fade away and I took a few deep breaths, but I still couldn’t remember what I had just been doing or what was going on.
In fact, I was still having trouble remembering who I was.
And then it came back to me as I murmured, “I’m the king’s mistress. And he’s marrying another woman….”
“Yes, I know, my lady,” he said softly, his breathing heavy.
Who was he again? He looked so familiar. His dark eyes and hair, his god-like handsome face, the intensity of his gaze…and all of those hot muscles pressing against me.
Finally, pieces and bits of information came to me, a name started to form in my head, but I had difficulties pronouncing it…Th-Th-Theron? Thalen? Theo!
“And you are my guard.” I said this to him as if I was unsure, but he nodded.
“Like all of us here at the castle, miss, we would do anything for you. You have practically been the Luna Queen for three years now.”
Yes, that was right. I was the woman the king loved more than any other….