Chapter 10
Obsession & Opportunity
Elijah’s POV
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It had been three days since the De La Cruz gala, and yet, I couldn't get her out of my head, I couldn't stop thinking about her.
Mary.
The way she smiled, smellee, that mischievousness in her eyes.
The woman who was supposedly Andrew’s, the one he paraded around like a prized possession.
The moment I saw her, I knew she was different from other girls, She had fire in her, a fire couldn't be tamed just easily.
A kind of defiance that didn’t belong in a world where women like her were expected to be submissive, obedient.
Yet, she pushed back. She teased, she played, she flirted and when I looked into her eyes that night, I saw something else, something Andrew was too arrogant to notice.
She was not his. Not really.
Not yet
