BELLA
The room fell silent, with all eyes fixed on Kai and me. I felt my heart racing, my mind reeling with shock and surprise. Propose? Was Kai being serious right now?
I turned to look at my mother. Her forehead was slightly creased, a mix of confusion and surprise etched across her features.
The silence was the kind that wasn’t just empty but thick, like something invisible had coiled itself around the air and squeezed. My mother stared at Kai with eyes sharp enough to cut glass. The proposal he had laid bare moments earlier seemed to echo against the ornate walls, rebounding louder each time it hit my ears.
My breath thickened as no one spoke. I didn't even know what to say. The mansion that was supposedly big became smaller than the walls of a microscopic organism.
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