Chapter 430: Dahlia’s Presence
Dani grunted as she tossed and turned on her bed. It was almost past midnight, and she was still awake despite everything she tried.
"Damn, I’m supposed to wake up early to meet Dahlia, so I should be resting right now," Dani mumbled to herself.
She couldn’t believe how much Abel affected her to the point that she couldn’t sleep normally despite her tiredness. That one scene where Abel almost kissed her haunted her; him snatching the orange from her mouth constantly playing in her mind.
She unknowingly touched her lips. It happened so fast that she didn’t even realize it happened until after the fact.
"Did we kiss?" she murmured with a frown. Surely, their lips touched when he stole the orange from her mouth. "I don’t even know what to count as my first kiss with that man!"
She didn’t want to consider the kiss she did to cast the thrall chaining spell on him as their first kiss, nor did she even want to consider what she recalled from when she got drunk. She felt like it was just a dream. Surely, it didn’t happen, and she didn’t want to confirm that to Abel to find out.
"Ahh, this is so frustrating!" she hissed to herself as she buried her face in the pillow.
Eventually, she decided to just try and count sheep in her head. Luckily, she fell asleep, but unknown to her, Abel went inside her bedchamber again after he was done checking all the arrangements for Dahlia’s arrival. It wasn’t that he didn’t trust Dani with this job. It was just that he was aware of how exhausted she was lately, especially when the queen was unconscious. As such, he made sure that things were perfectly arranged as he relayed it to her a while ago.
"You look so tame while you’re sleeping," he murmured as he gently removed the strands of her hair covering some of her face.