BiancaI force myself to swallow, my mouth gone dry while his words just hang there between us, solid and suffocating. Every sane part of me is yelling to shove him away, to tell him to cut this fucking game out right now, but the rest of me is not listening. A wave of heat moves through my body, and my thoughts turn to useless, scattered noise.Then he is there, erasing the last bit of space. One more step and we are close enough that I can feel the warmth of his breath on my skin. His smell is everywhere, and I am stuck, completely trapped in the strange spell of this moment."Make a choice, Bianca," Julian says.I know I need to speak, to form a single word, but my mind is just a mess of broken signals. The only thing that feels real is how near he is, the way his eyes show amusement and something else, something deep and threatening."Bianca," Julian says, "you have that look.""What look?" I get out, but it sounds weak and airy, not at all how I wanted."The look that says your m
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