~Nicole~
I thought the conversation had ended, but Landon spoke again, confidently.
“Whoever woos her best,” he finished, tightening his arm slightly around my shoulders, “gets to keep her.”
Keep me? Like a prize?
I didn’t know whether to laugh, protest, or run, because a small, dangerous part of my heart whispered something else entirely..
“Uhm… hello?” I cut in, my voice small but sharp enough to break their little circle of confidence.
“Am I invisible?” I added with a nervous half-smile. “Don’t I get to choose?”
Not like I even want to choose…
I kept that last part inside my head where it felt safer.
Where no one could grab it and turn it into another contest.
Caspian locked eyes with me.. “Oh, definitely sweetheart,” he said. “Whoever you pick…the rest of us will have to de
