"I expected more from you. This… this is just disappointing." Blaze took a step forward, his eyes never leaving mine, and I felt a shiver run down my spine. "I thought you wanted to play. Guess I was wrong." The air between us seemed to grow heavier, thick with the tension of everything that wasn’t being said. My breath came faster, the panic rising in my chest as I searched for a way out of this. There was no way I could fight him, not like this. He was too strong, too fast, and now he was toying with me. "I—I didn’t mean to…" My voice cracked, and I hated how weak I sounded, but I couldn’t help it. My mind was racing, and the only thing I could think of was how to get out of this alive. "Blaze, please… I didn’t know it would be like this. I didn’t want to fight you." The words tumbled