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HE TRIED TO KISS YOU

Author: She's Royalty
last update publish date: 2026-06-18 23:50:03

Chapter 70

Skylar's POV

He reached for my arm the moment we were outside.

"Don't." I stepped back before he could make contact. "Don't touch me right now."

He dropped his hand. He stood in the evening air outside the venue with that stillness of his. The one that usually communicated patience but tonight communicated something else. He knew that he had done wrong and had not yet decided what to do with that.

"How could you do that?" My voice was low because I was not going to make more of a sc
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