“I’ll start. When you walked into the ball that night, I remember exactly where I was. At the bottom of the stairs, ready to ask someone to sneak off to the garden.” “How romantic.” “Then you paused at the doorway, and I lost all sense of time and place. I had to know you.” My gaze sharpened on him. “Why are you telling me this?” “Because.” He held my stare. “I thought you were the most devastating thing I’d ever seen. A comet speeding directly at me. And I was so lost to your splendor, I didn’t care if you wiped me clean out of the realm, so long as I got a chance to admire you, even from a
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