“I am uncertain I believe in luck, but I have always been drawn to you, Avalynn. That is no secret.” He hadn’t experienced much of it lately. He said the words with a wry smile, though, in an attempt to put a pleasant spin on an unpleasant situation. It was not all bad, being stuck here. If he hadn’t thought her safer back home, he would have simply sent for Shayleiah and made himself at home in the palace. It would not have been the first time.
As she moved to leave the balcony he shook his head, gesturing toward the place where she had just stood. “By no means should you allow me to disrupt you. You can tell me what had you so enthralled out here.”
He would indeed move to join her if she did return to the railing, a hand curling against it doing much to make him appear more casual. There were always people here in these common areas, drawn to the palace by some official business or simply for the novelty of it. Recently, there was less of the latter. This place was not the bastion of security it had once been, though much had been done since the attack to make it safe. “Or was this your way of hiding?”