The Sorcerer's Bride Chapter 86

Hazel listened in mild shock . She felt like she had missed something . Lord Kaldrek and Zylvia seemed to have gotten quite a bit closer . She felt a mild bit of envy watching the way Kaldrek was feeding his wife . Her eyes went to her best friend as she contemplated .

Asrar met her gaze, a question in his eyes . She sighed, knowing that he would never treat her like that . She looked away, chewing on her inner cheek . It was hard not to feel frustrated with this whole thing . Asrar had given up trying to tell her not to feel like this for him, but he still refused to accept her . Instead he merely ignored it, and acted as if nothing ever happened .

"Didst thou need something, my princess?" His voice was quiet, meant only for her . Her eyes snapped back to look into his own . They were like a forest glade filled with sunshine, brilliant and so filled with intelligence .
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Hazel shook herself away from getting lost in his eyes, "It's nothing," She glanced down and stirred the food on her plate, feeling a trifle depressed . She wondered what it would be like between them if her nation did not have such heavy bans on magic . Would he be willing to actually entertain thoughts of her as a woman? Or would he fall in love with another woman?

"Princess?" There was a world of confusion in his voice . Why could he not call her by her name, why did he have to always use her title?

As she ignored him, he seemed to grow a bit worried, "Thou needst to eat, or else thou will just wither away into nothing . "

"What if I don't want to?" Her aggravated feelings seemed to be strangling her . How could she eat when she was feeling like this, as if she was slowly suffocating?

Suddenly her mouth was filled with food, "Eat, princess . Whatever is the matter, thou shouldst not neglect thine health . "

Almost choking, she looked at his perfectly straight face . A blush came to her cheeks even though she was pretty sure that he had not even considered the way such an action could be construed . She took her fork back from him and focused on her food, trying to calm her racing heart down .

This was the way Asrar was, always concerned with her wellbeing . It was one of the reasons why she had found it easy to delude herself that he actually had the same feelings that she did . But that was not the case . She wondered what he actually viewed her as . It seemed different from a normal friendship, was definitely not just the role of servant . She found herself worried that he might view her similar to a sister, which she did not at all want .

She comforted herself with the fact that at least it was not just her, he was uninterested in romance as a whole . Which meant that maybe if she could manage to get him interested in that sort of thing, she might stand a chance .

She focused on what was going on with the rest of the table, pulling herself out of her melancholy thoughts . The king and queen were chuckling over Kaldrek and Zylvia's little exhibition of affection, they seemed really pleased about what was going on . Kaldrek had a surprisingly gentle expression on his face as he watched his wife happily eating off of his fork . Zylvia was blushing and smiling as she accepted her husband's doting . It seemed so peaceful and Hazel could not help but feel like an outsider .

She suddenly found herself missing her brother, who she had not seen in what felt like forever . Heron was a rather wise young man, and she wished she could ask his advice . Of course, even if he was here how would she go about asking such a thing . It was not as if she could tell him that Asrar was a sorcerer, and that was a major part of the problem .

She wondered how her brother was doing . If he was healthy, well as healthy as he had ever been that is . She did not expect him to ever be perfectly healthy as his body had always been weak .

She could not believe that she had been sent away right before he had been going to come home . She wondered if he had changed any, because she knew she had after only being gone a few weeks .

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