“Tell me that you see it.” Annoyance, and perhaps something like fear, threaded into my voice. “What is it you’re wanting me to see, Florian?” I opened my eyes, and they crashed into his. A mistake, for I could see it swimming within the stormy sea of his gaze. I saw it all before he released those poisonous words to my lips. “That I’m so wretchedly in love with you, it’s both saved and damned me.”
