Chapter 82: Boots Or Cheek?
Evanna looked up at the prince and frowned; his mask had fallen, and she could see the amusement on his features and the gears turning behind his eyes. She sighed, placing her hands on each side of his feet and lowered herself to his boot, and pouting her lips. It will only take a second, then this will all be over! She tried convincing herself of her action. Arawn leaned further over his knees, his eyes widened at his miscalculation.
Just as Arawn was about to stop her, Evanna halted in her tracks and covered her mouth. There was a dead bug at the end of the leathery material also!
"Arawn! Please! I beg of you, don’t make me do this!" Evanna pleaded, looking up at him with her big green eyes.
But the prince wasn’t falling for her act. Instead, he tilted his head to the side. "You know your ultimatum, Evanna." He said calmly in his low baritone voice.
For some reason, it calmed her racing heart for a moment, but that didn’t last long when she remembered her ultimatum. Her heart began to pound loudly again, and she gulped as she stared back into the prince’s icy blue hues, surrounded with long lashes. For the number of times she had stared at him, this was the first she really took note of the individual lashes fanning his eyes.
She snapped out of her daze and asked the first thing that came to her mind. "Why do you want me to kiss you?" She whispered, looking down at her hands in her lap as she sat her bottom on her legs.
Arawn blinked back at her. The only indication he heard what she said. Instead of answering her, he asked his own question, "Why do you think I want you to kiss me?" His lips curled into a smirk while his eyes lit up in amusement.
Evanna forced herself not to roll her eyes. But, of course, he answered her question with a question. He was so frustrating; why couldn’t he just answer her question like a normal person? Sighing to herself, she racked her brains for an answer. "Because it’s my punishment.. You want to embarrass me? How else would I be punished if you had no intentions of actually harming me?"
The prince’s smile grew into a wicked grin at her answer.