I couldn’t move.Every nerve, every muscle, every breath screamed with tension. He was there—closer than I wanted, closer than I had allowed anyone to be—and the heat of his presence consumed me.It was suffocating. It was intoxicating. It was a prison and a drug all at once.I tried to steady myself, tried to summon the defiance that had carried me through every battle, every word, every stolen glance. I had always held the line, always drawn breath from the steel inside me. But now… it was slipping. Slipping like sand through desperate fingers, grain by grain, until I could feel the loss of control choking me.“Selena,” he murmured, voice low, smooth, wrapping around me like a velvet chain. “Do you feel it? That pull? That fire you cannot contain?”The sound of my name on his lips struck me like a touch. I shook my head, but the lie stuck in my throat. I could feel it. Gods, I could feel it—thick and burning, a current running through my blood, making my skin ache as if it were too
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