Chapter 7

TESSA POV

Laughter burst out of me before I could stop it, and I looked at him as though he'd sprouted a second head right there in the hallway.

"Are you insane?" I asked, still smiling. "What exactly gives you the confidence that I want to get engaged to you?"

For a moment Soren simply stared at me, and the confidence drained visibly from his face. Good. That was exactly what I wanted, to shatter the certainty he'd carried into this conversation, the certainty that all he had to do was dangle the engagement I'd once begged for and I would surrender all over again. He thought I...