“Come, little human.” He gestured his hand out to present more of his left arm for her. “Let me melt your heart.” His vision took on a purple hue, his orbs turning to that colour when pink began to rise in the arch bones of her cheeks, accompanied by the tiniest peek of a smile. It was the first one he’d seen from her soft-looking lips, and it caused heat to swirl in his gut and steal his pain from him completely.