“You’d burn down the school for me?” “Lucy.” He cups my cheeks, sliding his thumbs over them as more tears fall. My heart aches, pumping so hard against my ribs that it feels like it might break out of me entirely. “I would raze the earth just for a smile from you. There is nothing I would not do, and especially if you were ever harmed or endangered. I know you hate violence…you would not enjoy the man I’d become in the event of your demise.”
