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“I’d wanted to tell him she was mine. I’d wanted it to be so obvious we were together that no one would even be stupid enough to ask. I hated that I couldn’t. I hated that she and I hadn’t even talked about it. Hadn’t even discussed, in exacting detail, the fact that I would happily die for her and also, desperately, wanted to make her dinner.”

“What’s killing me most is that I don’t even have the right to be jealous.
She isn’t even mine.”

“I thought you were dead inside, Rosabelle,” he says. “But that’s not true, is it?”

“Did you know that? When he’s not around, you might as well be dead. When you’re thinking about him, I can almost tell you’re alive. But when he gets close to you, your emotional state reactivates—so much so that you become nearly unstable. It’s a fascinating phenomenon. Something I’ve never encountered. And I admit it took me longer than it should have to figure it out.”

“You can’t even think too hard about my brother without losing your shield.”

“I’m trying to decide whether I imagined what I just saw. Trying to remember whether Hugo has ever had tattoos.
“I don’t know,” I whisper.
At his wrists, snaking up into his palms, Hugo’s veins appeared to be black.”

OH NO HES GONNA DIE. THE VIAL???? NOOOO GO AFTER HIM CMN.

“My—my wife saw the potential in aligning our families, especially given Sebastian’s devotion to Rosabelle.”
“His devotion?” I repeat, surprised.
“Oh yes, Sebastian was quite devoted to her,”
“Even as a child, he used to follow her around like a magnet. Rosabelle liked Sebastian just fine, but he was”
“he was always a peculiar boy. He seemed happy to do nothing but trail after her for hours. In fact, he often did.”

“Sebastian and Rosabelle,” I explain. “The match was arranged by their parents.”
Castle sits back. “She’s engaged?”
“Technically.”

CASTLE’S REACTION LMAO