Azriel’s POV
Why was I so pissed off?
Because if this girl could, on a dime, play me like this, make it feel that real, I was in serious f*****g trouble.
She’d already dinged my armor somehow. She was looking up at me with huge eyes and a trembling lip asking what she’d done wrong and truthfully, I didn’t know how to answer her because she’d done just what I’d told her to do.
She’d done a masterful job of acting like she wanted to be with me. I felt this guilt sweep through me. I didn’t f*****g like it. I pushed it away.
“Do you really want to know what the difference is?” she asked me.
“Yeah, why don’t you enlighten me?”
I needed a f*****g drink.
Claire’s POV
“I pretended you were the guy I met blindfolded. Mysterious and passionate. Dangerous yet caring,” I said quickly.
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