His brows rose at ‘next time’, lips pursed in effort not to laugh.
“Don’t tell me you've turned from roses to pastries.”
He glanced down the aisle, amused but wary. That amusement vanished at her request. A rock and a hard place: if he declined to assist a superior, he would be to blame simply for having been there. But were he to be caught offering the assistance she was asking for? The potential repercussions were tenfold.
He glanced at her feet, clad in impractical shoes and a dress that seemed designed to hamper.
Perhaps if he hadn’t been so flustered or if Miss McPadraic had been a little homelier, he would have thought it through. But instead of a quick charm to float her, or something that kept the propriety of wizardly distance, muggleborn Ahmet held a hand to heft her up.
“Don’t tell me you've turned from roses to pastries.”
He glanced down the aisle, amused but wary. That amusement vanished at her request. A rock and a hard place: if he declined to assist a superior, he would be to blame simply for having been there. But were he to be caught offering the assistance she was asking for? The potential repercussions were tenfold.
He glanced at her feet, clad in impractical shoes and a dress that seemed designed to hamper.
Perhaps if he hadn’t been so flustered or if Miss McPadraic had been a little homelier, he would have thought it through. But instead of a quick charm to float her, or something that kept the propriety of wizardly distance, muggleborn Ahmet held a hand to heft her up.