“Answer me, Aria”. His voice was lower, deeper. It made her even more breathless, made her body tremble even more. “I…I do”. She replied quietly. She was back to stuttering again and she couldn’t help herself. “Yet you choose to be careless with it nonetheless”. He said to her. He was right. If he hadn’t walked in she would her cut her palm, what would be her excuse then? She would have sounded insane if she told anyone that something or someone had whispered the idea to her, even she would have thought it insane. A shuddering breath left her as he slowly trailed the pointed tip of the dagger down her neck to her beauty bone. She felt it in her soul though it barely made contact with her skin; it caused her body to tremble even more. Her breath hitched as he continued to lower the dagg

