CHAPTER 104 Cast Your Eye

　　~ CASIMIR ~

　　I shouldn't have come for her myself. I knew that. Ghere had almost swallowed his own tongue when I said I'd do it. But the truth was, it had been… uncomfortable keeping my space from her after that delicious time in the visitor's wing. I had needed to move, so I had said I would come for her myself. But I hadn't wanted to reach for her, to warn her that I was coming, because I had wanted to see what state she was truly in. And no matter how she might needle me, it was a relief to see her not shrinking after I left.

　　So why was it making my neck itch that she'd been… just fine? I had been braced for her shivering and pleading. To find her eating and talking with others was a welcome step forward from our previous separations. Yet, I couldn't shake that irritation, like a gnat buzzing at my ears.

　　And telling her not to eat with servants?