"But we don't even love each other!" she said, questioning how they could just be in a relationship like that.
"Do you think after what happened yesterday in the pub, in front of so many people, how many wouldn't misunderstand?" he retorted. Even Caleb had subtly asked him today if he was really dating Mabel Quinn.
Fine, she was in the wrong, but the issue was—"You don't love me at all, so why do you want to date me?"
He chuckled lightly, his thin lips moving closer to hers, gently brushing against her soft lips, carrying an indescribable teasing flirtation, "Because in this life, besides you, I can never fall in love with anyone else."
Throughout Kinston Family's history, those who inherited the Blood Curse never fell in love with anyone other than their destined one. And he, in the thirty years before meeting her, had never felt moved by any other woman.
It was as if his heart had been frozen, until he met her, and it truly began to beat.
