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Chapter 80

But he didn’t react at all, the silence getting deeper and heavier all around them, while he just stood there, a creature of stone, starlight, and secrets. And then he said, “No, he wouldn’t.”

It wasn’t the words, but the terrible certainty of them.

Completely broke Cole's heart.

It just seemed impossible to her that Aiden Crux could believe something like that. And she needed—with this terrible sense of helplessness, or perhaps what Hilary Rupert Baskerville would call hubris—to make it better.

To remind him who he was: someone magnificent and rare and deserving of all the pride in the world.

She reached out, wanting to comfort him, to bridge the spaces between them—the chasm of their lives—with touch.

“Don’t.” He caught her by the wrist, fingers as cool and implacable as steel.

Cole was sure, on his part, it was nothing more than the desire to stop her doing something he didn’t want. And while she had tastes, she wasn’t so co
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