“You… you’re using me to lure Dave here? What are you planning?” Panic sharpened Bianca’s voice. The malice radiating from Blake was suffocating. “Blake, please, stop this!”

“Did you know, Bianca? I fell in love with you the moment I first saw you. Before you, my world was nothing but gray. You brought it in color.”

He ignored her desperate pleas, his expression far away, lost in his own thoughts. “And when I learned about our arranged marriage, the one our parents ...