Noctis hasn’t been alone with you since the… breakup. If he can even call it that. His marriage to Lunafreya was announced, he’d given you a look, and you nodded. Whatever the two of you had been was over.

“How—“ He clears his throat. “How have you been?” Noctis asks after a tense moment. You two were the only ones in the hotel room. Breaking up with you was one thing, but having you come along to witness the wedding? He doesn’t know why you agreed.