*SELENE*And I lean in.“Now the opportunity you’ve been waiting for your whole life has finally arrived, and yet you’re playing houseboy, loyal friend, still thinking being her friend will make her choose you. when you should be marking your territory, and showing her who’s boss.” I say mockingly.Then I decide to drive my knife into his open wound.“Or perhaps, you’re still that same boy, if daddy won’t look your way, maybe she will.”His gaze goes cold, and he grips my throat with his hand.I smile and continue, nonetheless.“You need to wake the hell up and take what’s yours.”My voice drop to a whisper. “Take her while you still can, or I’ll crush her just to prove that she bleeds.”My eyes hold his.“Is that a threat,” he asked quietly, when he finally speaks, “or a promise?”I smile slowly. “I always keep my promises.”For a second his grip tightens as we stare each other, then he lets goes suddenly.I breathe in deeply as I gently massage where his hand just left.“I know she’
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