CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: THE DEVIL’S SHADOWSERENA'S POVThe man stood in front of us with that thin, polite smile that never reached his eyes.“You must be the wife,” he said, looking directly at me. The words were simple, but the way he said them made my skin crawl. He examined me the same way someone might examine a new piece on a chessboard. It was a curious, calculating, and faintly amused look.Caspian’s hand, which had been resting on the small of my back, slid down and closed around my fingers. His grip was firm. Almost too firm.The man’s smile widened just a little, as if he had noticed the movement and found it entertaining.“Interesting,” he continued, still speaking to Caspian while his eyes flicked back to me. “For a woman with a scandal of cheating on you floating around, you must be in love the way you’re protecting her.”The air around our table went cold.Caspian’s fingers tightened around mine until it almost hurt. I felt the tension running through his entire body. He di
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