Chapter 44: I'll be right here.

*LYCIA*

“You really like me?” He asked with big blue eyes staring at me in disbelief still.

“Yes,” I replied back walking in the palace interiors to his room.

“No, say it properly,” he said, making me give him a blank stare but nevertheless he kept up with his performance and said, “Please.”

Those eyes will be the death of me.

“Fine, I'll say it again, I like you Seff,” I sighed trying to hide a smile because the way his face lit up when I said those words made it seem like it had been an incantation to his happiness.

It had been a relief to my heart that he had accepted me back but even after this I couldn't receive the rest I had hoped for because now my heart sped for a different reason as I became more attentive of each of his actions and words.

It was as if I had been discovering new sides to him. How he smiled at ease and in true happiness every time that he heard me confess to him and how after a few minutes, as if he had been in a daze, he would poke me to repeat my confession