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I don’t answer him. Right behind Anna, following her as if they’re bound together by an invisible cord, is Leo fucking Gallo. He strides along behind her, tall like her, fit like her, glowing in the firelight like a golden lion.
But he’s not made for her.
I am.
If Leo is the sun, then I’m the whole expanse of the night sky. And that’s where Anna belongs—wrapped up in my arms like the moon goddess she is.
My need for her is so sharp and intense that I can taste it in my mouth like acid.
Just as I expected, Leo’s lapdogs flock around him, alive with conversation about the upcoming challenges. They surround him, demanding his attention, distracting him from Anna.
Anna doesn’t mind. She steps aside to let them speak to Leo. Spotting Chay by the fire, she joins her roommate instead and the two girls talk, giggling together about something I can’t hear. Chay picks up the speaker and Anna fiddles with it for a moment, turning up the volume and also changing to a different playlist.
Daisy disappears, and Anna’s favorite song starts to play instead. I know it’s her favorite because she plays it over and over when she’s practicing in the empty cathedral.
She doesn’t know how many times I’ve crept into the church to listen. I don’t watch her for long—I wouldn’t risk her catching me. But I always peek around the corner at her at least for a moment, so I’ll get an image of her burned in my brain, poised on tiptoe in the beams of multi-colored light, mid-pirouette or mid-leap, her long legs stretched out at the most outrageous angle.
??Love Chained - Cannons
This song plays over and over in my head. It means Anna to me.
I’m watching her talk to Chay. I’m tracing the emotions that pass over her face, subtle and fleeting like shadows on water. Anna is a mystery. I’ve only scratched the surface of what she keeps locked up inside of her.
She glances up and our eyes meet.
There’s no hiding the fact that I was watching her. I don’t want to hide it.
I leave Bram standing alone and I stride over to her, shouldering my way through anyone that stands between us.
“Hello,” she says cautiously.
I say, “I was waiting for you.”
Her face colors, and she shoots a glance at Chay who stands watching us, wide-eyed.
I don’t give a fuck about her roommate.
I say to Anna, “Dance with me.”
I never dance. But that’s what comes out of my mouth, and I don’t take it back.
Now it’s Leo she glances at—Leo talking and laughing with a dozen different friends. He doesn’t care that she’s over here. But she checks in with him anyway.
“I don’t think that’s a good idea,” Anna says quietly.
“Why not?” I demand.
Her blue eyes meet mine, clear and blunt. “You know why.”
I sneer, “Because ofhim?”
“I don’t want any trouble between you two.”
“He has nothing to do with this.” My hand closes around her wrist.
It’s the first time I’ve touched her since we collided in the changing room. Her skin is burning-hot from her proximity to the fire.
Anna hesitates. Then she twists her wrist quickly, slipping it from my grasp before my fingers have even finished closing around it.
