Then she turned her head and looked him straight in the eyes with an expression that was half surprise and half amusement.
"Oops… I think I said too much," she said with a mischievous smile, licking her lips one last time.
She looked at him with that playful grin, knowing she had said something she shouldn't have.
"…"
After Luna dropped that bombshell so casually, Mark turned the matter over in silence.
His first instinct was distrust.
'What if she's just playing with me?' he thought, watching Luna out of the corner of his eye as she lazily got up from the bed. 'It wouldn't surprise me at all… It's exactly the kind of thing she'd do just to see my reaction.'
And the truth was that, knowing the princess, that possibility made a lot of sense.
She was a woman who enjoyed provoking, who said scandalous things just to watch other people's faces fall apart, and who treated others' confusion as a form of personal entertainment.
