Aileen froze. She stopped chewing the tomato she just took in her mouth. Her eyes were stuck on her plate. She became stiff in her place. Her breath stuck in her throat as his hand slowly her right thigh. She gazed sharply at her Keiran to whom she has been avoiding from the time she entered their dining hall.
Her blood boiled seeing him giving her a cold smirk. It was the same look he gave her the other night when he separated her from that unnamed duke and forced her to dance with him in the ballroom.
His eyes were challenging her, telling her that he always takes her ignorance of him as an invitation to go close to her. No matter what she would do, she couldn't get rid of him. Not now, not ever.
She jerked her leg slightly to shake his hand off her. She was cautious, glanced at he
