Chapter 23

Adel took a step toward the man who had defied fate.

She meant to go to him at once, but her feet would not obey her, and she had to hesitate for a moment.

It was only a single dance with this man, yet it felt as though she were leaping into his life—surely that was the excessive emotion bred by her desperation.

Even so, Adel took one more step toward him.

There had never been many choices in her life.

Once she took a step, the next carried more force.

But her leap was caught at the ankle by Ethan.

“Where are you going right now?”

She looked at the wrist he had seized, then raised her head, and there was Ethan’s face, deeply contorted.

Why on earth was this man wearing such an expression?

When their eyes met, Ethan gathered all his strength and tried to compose his…