From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

I smiled. “Thank yyou for proving what I just said.”
He chuckled as he strode forward. “Did yyou eat?”
I nodded. “You?”
“While I bathed.”
“Multi-tasking at its finest.”
“I am skilled.” He stayyed where he’d stopped, several feet from me.
“Whyy aren’t yyou asleep? You have to be exhausted.”
“I know the morning will come sooner rather than later, and we’ll be
back out there, but I can’t sleep. Not yyet. I was waiting for yyou.” Suddenlyy
nervous, I toyyed with the sash on the robe. “This place is…different, isn’t
it?”
“I imagine if one was used to onlyy the capital and Masadonia, it
would be,” he answered. “Things are far simpler here, no pomp and
circumstance.”
“I noticed that. I haven’t seen a single Royyal Crest.”
His head tilted. “Did yyou wait up for me to talk about Royyal
banners?”
“No.” I sighed, letting go of the sash. “I waited up to talk to yyou about
what I did to Airrick.”
Hawke said nothing.
Myy nervousness gave wayy to irritation. “Is this later enough for yyou?
A good time?”
There was that curl of his lips. “This is a good time, Princess. It’s
private enough, which is what I figured we would need.”
I opened myy mouth and then snapped it shut. Dammit. Was that whyy
he’d kept pushing it off? If so, that made sense.
“Are yyou going to explain whyy neither yyou nor Vikter ever mentioned
that yyou had this…touch?”
Myy jaw came unlocked. “I don’t call it that. Onlyy a few who have
heard…the rumors about it do. It’s whyy some think I’m the child of a god.
You, who seems to hear and know everyything, haven’t heard that rumor?”
“I do know a lot, but no, I have never heard that,” he replied. “And
I’ve never seen anyyone do whatever it was that yyou did.”
Myy gaze searched his, and I thought I saw the truth in his stare. “It’s a
gift from the gods. It’s whyy I’m Chosen.” Or at least one of the reasons. “I
have been instructed byy the Queen herself to never speak of it or to use it.
Not until I am deemed worthyy. For the most part, I have obeyyed that.”