Love's Unexpected Awakening Elowen's Choice novel Chapter 125

Chapter 125 Stay With Me

“No physician.”

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As she opened her mouth to protest, he added, In this state, I cannot be seen by outsiders. Not even a physician.”

Elowen lowered her voice. “I remember there’s a royal physician… I’ve forgotten his name, but Bran knows which one. He cared for you during your illness.”

“If we trouble the royal physician, the King will learn of this. I do not wish to worry him.”

“I see…” Elowen was convinced, touched by the apparent depth of fraternal feeling between Cassian and the King.

Cassian’s palm moved slightly against her waist. Stay with me.”

He rested his head against her, his breath hot against her neck. “Stay with me a while. It will pass.”

His heated exhale ghosted over her skin. Elowen found no words or space to refuse him.

Nervousness gripped her. Sitting stiffly in his lap one hand tentatively resting on hist shoulder, she felt utterly at a loss.

“I thought you might suspect me,” Cassian murmured after a moment.

“…Suspect what?” Elowen asked, her mind catching up.

“Of meeting another woman.”

“How could I?”

“So certain?”

Elowen nodded. “Because Bran is your man. If you truly intended a secret rendezvous, you wouldn’t have sent him to find me. You’d have had him guarding the door.”

As she spoke, her focus successfully diverted, and her posture relaxed slightly.

Cassian didn’t withhold praise. “You are clever.”

“And…” Elowen bit her lip. “You have a beloved, don’t you?”

Cassian didn’t deny it. “I do.”

He looked at her. “Care to guess who?”

Elowen was taken aback. She couldn’t guess. She had once suspected Elara, but he’d denied it.

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Chapter 125 Stay With Me

“She must be… a good person?” she offered vaguely.

Yes. Very good.”

A smile touched Cassian’s lips. “Clever. And once an excellent rider.”

Elowen, still oblivious, followed the thread. “A rider…”

I like riding too. If I met her, perhaps we could be friends.

“But later, she was injured. She hasn’t ridden in a long time,” Cassian added.

“How was she injured?” Elowen asked.

“While saving someone.”

“What a pity.” Elowen’s sympathy was genuine, born of shared experience.

Yet as the words left her mouth, a strange, unsettling feeling stirred within her.

Cassian’s description felt familiar, as if he were speaking of her.

But…

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