As you eat lunch with your boyfriend, everyone stares at the two of you together.

“You’ve attracted quite a lot of attention…I gather you’re not enjoying it?” You said quietly, looking up at him from across the table.

“Hardly. Anyways, yours-“ Malleus hastily cleared his throat. “Yours is the only attention worth having.”

An audible silence hung in the air. At the realisation of what he had said hit you, a fiery heat rose throughout your cheeks, filling them with a flushed warmth.