JORDYN 🌹I didn’t wait to see what anyone else was doing.Not Ty. Not Vanessa. Not the eyes I could still feel lingering on me.I turned away, desperate to be anywhere but under those chandelier lights. The sting of wine on my skin had dried slightly, but the embarrassment lingered. My dress clung in places it shouldn’t, and every step away from that spot sent my heart racing at a breakneck pace.I needed air... Or silence. Or both.Declan had ordered for the broken mess to be cleaned. And while the cleaners attended to it, he turned and walked away without another word.One of the women passed by me with a polite smile, but I only gave a brief nod in return.“I’m fine,” I muttered before she could even ask. I wasn’t, but that wasn’t the point.I’d been there—with Declan. We’d been close, his hand tightly wrapped around my waist, and his hot breath against my face.And it had done something to my insides.For a second, I’d almost forgotten my words, and allowed myself to be captiva
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