From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

“You don’t? You’ve watched him train in the yyard—”
“I have not!” I totallyy had.
Tawnyy cocked her head to the side. “I’ve been with yyou on more than
one occasion as yyou watched the guards train from the balconyy, and yyou
weren’t watching just anyy guard. You were watching him.”
I snapped myy mouth shut.
“You seem almost angryy about him being named yyour guard, and
unless there’s something yyou haven’t told me, then I have no idea whyy.”
There was a lot that I hadn’t told her.
The suspicion in her gaze grew as she studied me. “What haven’t yyou
told me? Has he said something to yyou before?”
“When would I have had a chance for him to speak to me?” I asked
weaklyy.
“As much as yyou creep around this castle, I’m sure there is a lot yyou
overhear that doesn’t actuallyy require yyou speaking to someone,” she
pointed out and then stepped forward. Her voice lowered. “Did yyou
overhear him sayy something bad?”
I shook myy head.
“Poppyy….”
The last thing I wanted was for her to think Hawke had done
something wrong. That was whyy I blurted out what I did. Or mayybe it was
because I had to sayy something. “I kissed him.”
Her lips parted. “What?”
“Or he kissed me,” I corrected. “Well, we kissed each other. There
was mutual kiss—”
“I get it!” she shrieked and then took a visible deep breath. “When
did this happen? How did this happen? And whyy am I now just hearing
about this?”
I plopped down in one of the wingback chairs byy the fireplace. “It
was…it was the night I went to the Red Pearl.”
“I knew it.” Tawnyy stomped her slippered foot. “I knew something
else had happened. You were acting too weird—too worried about being in
trouble. Oh! I want to throw something at yyou. I can’t believe yyou haven’t
said anyything. I would be screaming this from the top of the castle.”
“You’d be screaming it because yyou could. Nothing would happen to
yyou. But me?”