When Petals Meet The Blade (Priscilla and Waldo) novel Chapter 69

Chapter 69

Chapter 69

Magnus eventually returned to the tree.

Before he left, he reminded her, “Prince Leon drank a lot tonight, and with the cold wind, please take care of him, Ms. Yates. Don’t let him catch a chil

Jessica took a moment to compose herself.

After a brief pause, she went outside and gathered four trusted guards to stand watch at the courtyard gate. She instructed them that only Monica and Nolan were allowed inside; no one else was to be permitted.

When Monica and Nolan returned with Garbisch, Jessica sent Nolan to stay behind and personally guard the gate.

Neither Nolan nor the other guards asked any questions, and no one dared look back. The gates to Moonchase Hall were securely locked.

Once everything was in place, Jessica let out a sigh of relief. She returned to her room to grab a blanket, then went back to the pavilion.

Leon was deeply asleep, likely exhausted from the past few days. Occasionally, a soft snore escaped him.

As she approached with the blanket, she frone just before covering him.

While she’d been busy with other matters, Leon had turned onto his side. His hall mask was pressed beneath him, revealing the other side of his face,

unmarred and intact.

Under the moonlight, his features were both striking and gentle–firm, like a mountain, yet soft, almost like a work of art.

His dark, thick eyebrows arched elegantly, and his high nose gave him an air of authority. But his long eyelashes, resting just above his eyes, cast a fan- shaped shadow, adding an alluring depth to his gaze

His lips, still faintly tinged with alcohol, glistened in the moonlight. They were so tempting, like two soft, blooming rose petals. The delicate pink hue seemed to carry a fragrance that made one want to lean in and admire them.

A breeze swept through, scattering the hair at his temples and softly tousling it across his handsome face, giving him an almost tragic, seductive quality.

Without thinking, Jessica reached out, intending to brush the stray strands from his face..

It wasn’t until her fingers were barely a half–inch from his face that the realized what she was doing.

Her heart skipped a beat, and she quickly jerked her hand back, a rush of warmth flooding her face.

Flustered, she hurriedly draped the blanket over him and rushed out of the pavilion, not daring to linger for another moment.

The most handsome man in Capitalia. otherworldly kind of allure.

It was

s true, after all. Just half of his face was enough to reveal a beauty she had never seen before–an almost

Shaken, Jessica quickly returned to her room and locked the door behind her. Her heart was still racing. It was both awe–inspiring and unsettling

When she was younger, she hadn’t truly grasped the weight of the title “the most handsome man in Capitalia.” Now, she understood. But it was also because of her actions that Princo Leon had been disfigured

For an ordinary person, being disfigured was a tragedy, but for someone as stunning as the “most handsome man in Capitala,” it was devast

It his face had remained untouched, the titles of the other handsome men in Capitalia, or even Prince Waldo and the other princes, wouldn’t have

mattered at all.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, trying to calm herself.