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My heart danced.
His hand was warm, sure.
“Do you know what I want?”
“No,” he said.
“More.”
“More?”
“I’m not sure what we’re doing here,” I grumbled. “Teasing each other. Testing each other. Revealing ourselves, but not all of ourselves.”
“I can give you only so much. Any more and I’d frighten you away.”
“You’ve already frightened me. You’ve already lied to me. You proclaim your deceptive nature as though you’re proud of it.”
“It is well ingrained in me,” he said.
“You act as though you don’t want to change.”
“I can’t.”
“Would you change for me?” I pleaded with my eyes.
His pupils flicked back and forth, studying the depths of my eyes. “Niawen. You’re maddening.”
“Share yourself with me.” I wanted to reach out, grab his arms, and pull him into myself.
Caedryn dragged his hands down his face. “You don’t know what you ask.”
“You’ve as good as dangled your secrets in my face. Flaunted your dark side.” I poked him in the chest.
Caedryn grabbed my hand and held it steady against his chest. His breathing was shallow, and his heart beat rapidly.
“Four ways to bond. I want you to give me one,” I said.
“Niawen. You don’t know what this will do.”
“You’ve bonded with no one, correct? Physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually?”
“Uh…”
I pulled my hand off his chest. “You told me no one before.”
“I forgot about the emotional bond.”
“You would know if you had one.”
“I had one with Empress Rhianu, then.”
“Of course you did.”
“It’s broken now, trust me.”
I raked my hair back from my forehead. I was becoming more frustrated by the second. I don’t care about his past. I want to know the man standing right before me. I blurted my words before I could regret them or talk myself out of saying them. “I bond with you mentally. Do you accept me?”
Tension flooded the room.
