HEARTBREAKER
“Then you also know he’s just getting started.”
I take a slow sip, letting the burn settle in my chest. “That feud was never dormant for me,” I murmur, staring into the amber liquid. “My father died defending this empire. I made sure every man in these streets remembered what would happen if they put a toe out of line.”
Andrea studies me, his own past flickering in his gaze. “You’re not the only one who lost people in that war.”
Silence stretches between us, heavy with the weight of old ghosts. Then, almost too casually, he says, “You’ve awoken a decades-old feud by marrying Aurora, throwing her name in everyone’s faces.”
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