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His eyebrows are furrowed, his mouth screwed up in a scowl, his hands balled into white-knuckled fists. Standing completely still, staring at me like he absolutely loathes me, is Prince Emmett De Vere.
“You think this is me trying to seduce you? If I were trying to seduce you, you’d know.”
Sometimes I feel like one day every other girl was given instructions on how to grow up, and I missed the lesson.
Later, in the privacy of my room, I unfold it. In unfamiliar, boyish handwriting are the words I believe in you. EDV. And below that, a tiny sketch of a shrimp with a heart right in the middle of its head.
Eduart shakes his head. “No, I meant does poor, sweet Prince Bram know you’re in love with his brother?”
“I know my way around a corset, Ivy.”
“Like you? Ivy Benton, I am obsessed with you. It’s going to kill me.”
And I swear it, I will not resent you, but I’ll say it just this once. I would have loved you. I would have loved you so well.”
Somewhere, across time and space, there’s a version of me and a version of you, wearing matching rings, tangled up in front of a fireplace, together. I have to believe that’s true. In another life, it would have been us, but not in this one.
He thinks for a moment, his eyes boring into mine all the while. “Like getting run over by a carriage.”
