Chapter 0786

“Princess,” Elias says with a sad little sigh. “I’m sure there are a great many questions that you -” But a clatter interrupts Elias’s words and he jumps a little as the little carafe of cream goes soaring to the ground.

“Oh, Ellie,” Pippa says, giving him a half-hearted little glare along with a laugh. “You’re impossible.” She drops a kiss to his cheek even as she goes to her knees with a napkin, quickly wiping up the spilled

cream.

“Pip, please let me,” Elias murmurs, starting out of his chair.

But she just waves a hand at him, murmuring that he should entertain their guest, and continues her work. “She’s right,” Elias says with a sigh, returning his eyes to me, his face serious. “I really am impossible. I’d be a complete disaster without Pippa to keep me in order.”

I nod cheerfully even as I watch his face, kind of…baffled. Because these two – it actually is impossible, right? If he’s mated to Ben then he’s…he’s gay, or at least queer or bisexual, yes? Which I know, here, is illegal at best and more accurately a death sentence. But his relationship with Pippa…it just seems so… real