Echo

"Ceaser!" I breathed.

Surprise and fear inspired the heavy pounding of my heart.

What was he doing here?!

I screamed in my head as I stared into his eyes, all the warmth of the man by the piano and the one in the ballroom gone.

He jerked me to my feet and pushed me away from him.

"What were you doing?" He demanded icily. "Where are you going?"

"I…" my mouth clamped shut. I didn't know what to say except the truth. I didn't have time to think up a lie and right now my brain wasn't functioning at it's best right now.

"You were running away." He deadpanned,...