Inevitable

"When did you fall in love with me?" Evie asked, curiosity shone forth from her eyes. Her large eyes were glimmering as she gazed at him. "You were… so nice and kind to me ever since we met. Even when the times I was being so ridiculous, you were…" she paused as she searched his eyes, "you were so patient and so good to me."

When Gavriel simply stared back at her, Evie knelt before him and looked up at that face that could drive thousands of women wild even with his icy look. She then smiled before reaching her hands out to hold his face gently between her hands. "I thought back then it was all because of the deal you made with my father and the human emperors, but now… I truly feel as if it was not because of the deal at all. Am I… wrong?"