“I couldn’t watch you dancing with Caleb,” he said, holding my eye and just owning how he felt for once. “Why?” I asked, still not moving despite the fact that a smarter girl would have run by now. He shifted in his position on the throne and I looked up at him as he moved to lean his elbows on his knees as he gazed down at me. “Because you’re in my head all the time. You pulse through my blood with each beat of my heart. I live for every scrap of attention you offer me and suffer through every moment you spend ignoring me,” he said darkly, holding my eye the entire time. “I thought you hated
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