Chapter 79 The Ultimate Confession

• He chuckled under his breath, shaking his head as though the answer were both obvious and impossible to admit. “The first time I really saw you,” he said after a pause, “I knew you were trouble.”
• She laughed softly, nudging his arm. “Trouble? That’s what you thought of me?”
• “Absolutely,” he said with a smirk. “You had this fire in your eyes. Like you’d burn the whole world down before letting anyone control you. And I…” he hesitated, the humor fading into something quieter “…I should’ve ignored that. Or quenched it even.”