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“Your apartht years” His frustration at hi it hard and heated “Your full-ride scholarship to the Fashion Institute of Harbor City? My company sponsored it” He needed to reel the emotion back in, but he couldn’t when it caetting louder with each word “Mrs Bees you soup in the winter and asks you to watch her Pomeranian? She’s one of ours We’ve always been there”
He had done his best Facing her as she blinked those big, brown eyes fast and furious to stop the tears froh
Looking anywhere but at hi it around and around with shaking fingers The hollow sound of ceraranite echoed in the suddenly quiet kitchen The urge to keep talking, to keep proving hi her never gained the results he wanted—he’d learned that the hard way the day they’d arrived at the chalet and she’d tried to blow his head off
Finally, she righted thehi else?”
His gut churned More? Oh, fuck, yes, there was “What do you mean?”
“If you’ve been keeping other secrets, now’s the time to share”
Just little things, like the fact that her father was alive and the Resistance’s leader He could tell her Shit, he wanted to tell her, but he couldn’t break his vow to the king who had his own secrets he didn’t think anyone knew Within the next
few nuz would be dead The transplants to replace the organs torn apart by the assassin’s bullets hadn’t worked The clock ticked down for the for Elle, ould it be like to lose him twice, and after she found out he’d never reached out to her in the ten years she’d been on her own? Telling her the truth wouldn’t give her father any more time, and the end result would be the same
“Nothing” The lie left a foul taste in his
She narrowed her eyes and gave hi into the darkest parts of his soul and find hi”
“Every htness into his tone he didn’t feel He had to ot off his stool and rounded the island to her side “Anyway…” Nudging a strand of hair away from her ear, he inhaled the sultry scent that drove him to distraction “It’s Roman Holiday rules, remember?”
Cupping her chin, he turned her so she faced hi, it was meant to distract them both from the dark turn their conversation had taken and the even darker things left unsaid She opened for hi himself until she pushed him away
“That won’t work forever, you know,” she said,her cheeks
“What’s that?” he asked, letting his hands travel over her hips and up under the he
“Kissing rasp