BURNING BETRAYAL: My Mafia Professor.
The hand left my mouth.
Now it was just me and him.
Eye to eye.
His presence swallowed me whole, tall, sharp, his face unreadable, like it had been carved from stone. Jawline sharp.
My throat burned as he wrapped his hand around it, his grip firm but not crushing. Cold steel pressed against my neck—the knife. I gasped, my bag slipping from my shoulder. It hit the ground with a dull thud, spilling open, and my book tumbled out.
He glanced down. The cover showed a girl in a tattered white dress, standing alone, shadows stretching around her. Black roses curled up the sides, thorns sharp, almost alive. The title dripped in blood-red letters across the top.
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