TOOAFP Chapter 133: The Beginning of Spring (1)

For the entire journey north, they could barely keep their hands off each other. The expression sparks fly when their eyes meet turned out to be no exaggeration at all.

The variety of locations was, in retrospect, embarrassing to contemplate.

The inns where they'd stayed went without saying—but there had also been a stream they'd stopped at to drink, a mountain hot spring they'd visited on the pretext of restoring Kasha's stamina, and even, somehow, a stable they'd ducked into to have a horse reshod.

The memory surfaced without warning and sent heat rushing to Kasha's ears. She took a long sip of her milk tea and muttered to herself.

"I really did want to see the desert sunrise..."

At which point she was lifted bodily into the air.

She yelped. Leon caught the cup before it could fall, set it on the table with perfect composure, and carried her—still…