must kiss you goodbye.” My cheeks heat. I flash back to the amazing, toe-curling kiss we shared at the pub, and all the kisses that have come after it. I can’t do that in front of his mother. Especially not when I don’t know what we are anymore. Alaric misunderstands my shock as consent. He moves in, his thighs brushing mine, one hand curling around my thigh. “They are watching. It will convince them that we are serious.”
