"Well, I don't know, do I?" he blurted out before he had time to fully process what she had just said.
And then it hit him. She had meant it. But she couldn't have. Allegra Flint was not supposed to like him, not when she knew him as well as she did. And definitely not when she had spent so much time flirting with that idiot Dunstan, and going to the Yule Ball with him, even if she had asked him first...
He stopped. While Allegra had sit down the moment they had arrived to the courtyard, Cormac had remained standing - and now he was starting to feel dizzy.
"I... I think I need to sit down," he said in a faint voice.