Kaireen's Pov Then he laughed, a real one this time, not the cold club version, something that had genuine amusement in it, and somehow that was worse. "You don't know anything about me," he said, walking slowly toward me. "You sat in my office. Ate at my table. Walked through my world and smiled at me and you think you understand what's going on inside my head." He stopped a few feet away. "I was willing, Kaireen. I was genuinely, actually willing to drop the person I have spent my entire life becoming. To be something different." He said it flat, no self-pity, just the plain truth of something that had since been burned to the ground. "Just for you, specifically. And then you and your brother took that and set fire to it while I was standing right there watching.""I'm sorry," I said quietly. "I genuinely am."He stepped closer.His hand came up and his fingers closed around the front of my blouse, not pulling, just holding, and he looked down at me with those dark, cold eyes, an
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