My lip quivers. “But you could hardly look at me.” “I couldn’t look at you, Aislinn, because each time I did, I lost all sense of time. Of surroundings. I was crawling out of my skin just to be near you. To breathe your air. I couldn’t look at you because the hole it opened in my chest knowing you were marrying a lord…marrying anyone who wasn’t me. I couldn’t look at you because I knew, I fucking knew, the second your hand accidentally brushed against mine and you turned those gorgeous green eyes to me that I would let all of Katova burn for you and that if you were ever hurt, I’d be the one
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