Chapter 21POV: SeraphinaHis silver eyes did not waver, waiting, patient in the particular way children could be patient when they had decided something mattered enough to sit still for it."I am not here to marry your father," I said finally, choosing my words with the same careful precision I used when explaining tricky maths problems, technically true, deliberately incomplete. "I am here because I owe him a debt. That is all this is."It was not a lie exactly. Not the kind that would break his rule outright. I was not, in fact, here for marriage. But the answer skated so close to dishonest that guilt still curled hot and uncomfortable in my chest, because Theo had not asked whether I wanted to marry Damian. He had asked whether I was here to marry him, and the truth, tangled and messy as it was, sat somewhere between revenge and an attraction I did not fully understand yet, neither of which I had any intention of explaining to a nine-year-old boy.Theo studied me for a long moment
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