[Lumi's POV]My stomach turned the second the music started swelling again inside the hall behind us, and I barely made it past the side doors before I had to stop, one hand braced against the cool stone, breathing through it the way Wren had shown me two days earlier."Lumi." Kade's hand found my back, gentle, worried in the particular way he got whenever he thought something was wrong and hadn't figured out what yet. "You've gone pale again. Is it the crowd? We can go back to our rooms, nobody would think twice about it tonight.""It's not the crowd.""Then what. You've been doing this for days now, going quiet and disappearing to corners at every gathering, and I've been telling myself not to hover, but I'm done not hovering, Lumi. Talk to me, please."I'd meant to wait. I'd told myself all week I'd find some perfect, quiet moment, somewhere far from ceremonies and crowns and everyone else's enormous news, somewhere that belonged only to us. Standing there in the cool night air wit
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