Once His Wallflower, Now His Biggest Mistake
As she pulled away, her eyes were wide and adoring, but I saw the slight, unnatural bulge in the silk sash of her dress.
“You have a very pretty bracelet,” Luna chirped, pointing at his left wrist, where a heavy platinum band encrusted with rare, deep-blue diamonds the Valtorian 'Star of the Sea' usually sat.
Alaric glanced at his wrist. It was bare.
He looked at Luna, then at me, then back at the five-year-old girl who was currently looking at him with the innocence of a cherub. He didn't get angry. Instead, he smiled, a slow, predatory, deeply impressed smile that told me he knew exactly what had happened.
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