POV: ChloeDinner was a beautiful kind of torture. The dining room was everything the rest of the manor was. Vast, elegant, and suffocating. Candlelight caught the edges of crystal glassware and threw warm gold across the long table, and somewhere between the soup course and the main, I lost the ability to think clearly because Tristan wouldn’t stop looking at me.He sat directly across from us, unhurried and perfectly composed, one hand resting loosely around his wine glass while the other turned a fork slowly between his fingers. He wasn’t staring obviously, it was worse than that. It was the kind of looking that happened in the spaces between conversations, quick and precise and devastating, like he was cataloguing every breath I took and filing it away somewhere I’d never have access to. Ethan was talking about his graduation plans. I caught perhaps every third word.“Babe, you’re quiet tonight,” Ethan said softly, bumping his shoulder against mine.“Sorry, just tired.” Another l
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