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I don’t know which of us is more surprised when I yank it open and come face-to-face with Dahlia.
I want to drink in how beautiful she looks. How perfect she is in the dress she’s chosen for the ball. But it’s all wrong. It’s all tainted now.
It’s notjustthat Chase used the words in my diary to make her think he was the author. That it was him she’d been talking to on those pages all along.
It’s that she believed it. It’s that shewantedit to be Chase. She even said so, in her response in the book. That’s why she’s all dressed up tonight. That’s why she’shere, to meethimfor the dance.
That’s why she’s already fucked him and his fucking friend, and let him video it.
Because she doesn’t want the beast. She wants prince fucking charming.
It’s a bizarre feeling, looking at someone you thought you loved and suddenly hating them so much, even if you know you’re not truly capable of that. I want to, so badly. Iwantto hate her. But I know that there could be a thousand men before me, and I still wouldn’t hate her. I’d just kill them all.
But at this moment, she has to be gone. She can’t be around me anymore. Not ever.
“Run from this place, now. And if you ever speak of any of this, I’ll destroy everything you love.”
The wailing of sirens fills the night as I stagger outside, watching as Dahlia runs away from me in terror, out into the darkness of Halloween Night. Fire roars behind me on the upper floor of the Para Bellum mansion, and students are rushing out, some screaming and running away, others filming it.
But I just watch her as she fades from my vision.
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Present:
She’s shakingand crying when I finish telling her the events of that night. She pushes me aside, staggering out of the closet and into my bedroom. Her shoulders shake and her breath hitches as she paces the room frantically with a dazed, wild look on her face.
“You…you really…” She turns to stare at me with pure venom in her eyes. “You honestly thought that was me in that video!?”
My stomach drops. I blink at her.
“What?”
“That wasn’t me, Deimos,” she hurls at me, her face haggard and her voice strained. “Thatcouldn’t havebeen me!”
My lips curl into a snarl. “The fuck do you mean—”
“Surprise, buddy!” she screams. “I was a virgin before!!”
My pulse is still thudding as I stalk toward her. “Beforewhat,” I snarl.
“BeforeYOU!”
The room goes silent. My body freezes, and all the hatred and rage drops away and shatters at my feet.
“What?”
“There was never…” She wipes her eyes with the back of her hand and looks away miserably. Her shoulders shake as she glances back at me with teary eyes and a tragic expression. “I always wanted it to be you, you know,” she whispers. “When I found the book, and read it, and we started conversing…” Her throat bobs. Her eyes glisten in the darkness. “Deep down, I always wanted it to be you.”
I’m moving to her before I can stop myself. Before I can analyze it or let the mistakes of the past cut me in half.
“It always was,” I growl.
She moans as I slam into her, my lips bruising hers as I seize her in my arms. We stagger backward, tearing each other’s clothes off and grappling like we’re each other’s lifeline keeping us tethered to the world.
We fall onto the bed with her astride my hips, her nipples dragging against my chest as my swollen cock head pulses right against the soft slickness of her opening.
“It always was me,” I growl. “And I’ve loved you since the moment you stole my attention.”
