The sudden change of position, and that gaze, left Seraphine completely lost, unsure how to react.
A faint blush rose to her cheeks as she tried to gather her thoughts enough to ask what he was trying to do. But her mind, usually sharp enough to calculate a battlefield in an instant, seemed to have forgotten how to form a single coherent sentence.
Evan didn't give her the time.
He leaned his head a little closer to her, their faces now only a few centimeters apart, close enough that they could almost feel each other's breath, close enough that the whole world beyond the edge of that tower seemed to fade into irrelevance.
Evan's expression stayed calm, but that intensity in his eyes seemed to grow as he opened his mouth.
"My lovely tsundere. You really are adorable when you act like this," he said, his voice calm but carrying a note of playfulness that made the young woman's heart tremble beneath him.
