FIRST PERSON’S POV (AURELIAN). For weeks, I carried the simplest truth of my life without saying it out loud. Loving the alpha heirs. When Astarian confessed his feelings, it had felt unreal. Like something I was watching happen to someone else from a careful distance. And now Tavian had done the same, in a bathroom stall, with the noise of the academy bleeding through the walls, and it landed no less real for the setting. I had expected Tavian to be the last one. He was too comfortable with flirtation, too skilled at keeping everything just below the surface where it couldn’t be pinned down. But he had looked at me with his hands on my face and said the words plainly and the whole performance of him had simply dropped away. Staring at him now, I knew one thing clearly. I loved him more than he could currently imagine. “I love you.” I said, keeping my voice low. Just for him. I tilted myself up and claimed his lips. This kiss carried none of the urgency from before. No heat r
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