Chapter 115. Rule Number One (The Original Inventor) (3)

She wouldn’t be human if she didn’t give him back a piece of her heart right there and then. Time had done nothing to dull the flames in his eyes.

“For loving me, for showing me how to love, for every desperate look, every desperate kiss and all the waiting, oh the endless waiting. Because of everything that’s ever been between us, the love, the pain, the happiness, the mistakes our crazy love made us make. Let me just say you’re still all I want. Tell me one more time that you’ll be mine by marrying me tomorrow, Your Majesty.”

Aria was completely caught up in that proposal, in those words, in Adele and Aaron’s story. She was about to give him an emphatic yes when she saw her standing next to Bart. Caroline Condor, in the flesh. Aria panicked. If she was here, was he too? No, Troy wasn’t here. If he was she would know by now. Keep your feet on the ground, Aria. But if he wasn’t here, why the hell was CC?! What was she doing here?

Bart saw Aria stare at CC like her