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Chapter 104
Usually, I had perceived his eyes to be as cold as blood, but strangely, now it felt the opposite; I sensed a peculiar warmth.
'Am I seeing them wrong?'
I stared into his pupils to discern if the warmth I discovered within them was real.
"… If that is your decision."
I snapped out of my thoughts at his short response. I cleared my throat and warned him firmly.
"We are only dancing once, and that's it."
I drove the point home. It wasn't a pleasant experience to accept the thinly veiled command under the guise of the Crown Prince's 'request.' But…
'Although I didn't wish for it desperately, I did receive his help.'
In order to clear this debt, rewarding him as he now suggested would rather ease my mind later.
'And whether it's the Crown Prince or not, I would have to dance with someone else anyway. Since I don't know anyone, Kedrick is likely to be my partner.'
