Chapter 98: You Love Me?
And to help herself, she threw Valerio’s image out of her head, and instead, began seeing Zayne. There was no one else on this floor with her, except Zayne. He was the one holding her, it was his touch she was feeling, and those pairs of eyes on her were his.
He was smiling down at her like he always did. Staring at her yet again as if she were the only thing he could see. As if he’d never look at another woman.
"I love you," she sighed out. "I love you. And I don’t understand why I never told you. I love you a lot and I’ll...I’m going to say it until you understand—"
"You love me?"
The voice that sounded nothing like Zayne broke her out of her spiraling thoughts and hallucinations. Valerio’s face came into her vision and she quickly jolted out of his grip, staggering back and stumbling over her own foot to fall to the ground.
Her lashes flickered rapidly.
"I-it’s not you. It’s not you." She shook her head. "I was confused. It wasn’t...you I saw."
Rejecting him, he could handle that. But to watch her say she loved him, only for it to turn out she’d meant someone else drove him out of his mind.
He grabbed her bicep and yanked her to her feet. "You will dance with me! Properly! And you will look me in the face! You will have your eyes on me and me only!"
"Let go of me. I don’t want to. I don’t want to do this! Let go!" She fought him off, staggering backward.
Valerio shoved her against the wall, slamming his free hand by the side of her head against the wall.