The quiet crackle of frost echoed softly through the grand hall as Kai finally pulled back from the deep kiss, and he let his cold fingers trace the soft curve of Yena's jawline while she looked up at him with half-lidded, utterly devoted amber eyes.
The massive spatial glass doors of the throne room had long since closed behind the departing legion, leaving the newly crowned Cosmic Sovereign and his Chief Enforcer entirely alone in the vast, beautiful silence of their captured palace.
"You are incredibly distracting, you know that?" Yena murmured with a soft, breathy laugh, and she rested her hands flat against his broad chest while she playfully pushed him back just a few inches.
"We have an entire universe to conquer at dawn, and yet the only thing I can think about right now is how easily I could drag you back upstairs to the royal bedchambers."
