Chapter 166

Cephus’ POV

One further, pitiful detail occurred to me. “She didn’t even like those parties! It was so obvious she was hating every second of being there… but she was there, for him.”

“It’s rare to have anyone so willing to fight for you,” said Cephus. “Of course he loved her.”

I tried to fix him with the shrewdness of my look but I wasn’t sure I could have managed that even when not tipsy. “Are you trying to sell me the line that I’ll love you, once you show me you can protect me in the same way?”

That question made him serious again… in that distant...