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"Whoa" He quickly put a hand under my head before it could smack on the hardwood floor

"I’m fine," I said breathlessly, and internally berated inable to look like an idiot tonight I tried to sit up, but the guy was still hovering over o farther than I’d been

"Are you sure you’re okay?"

"Yes," I pro breath when he sat back

"Good I can’t have you passing out on me, Cinderella"

"Cin--" My head shook firmly as I corrected hiestured to the red mark on his forehead for barely a second, then reached behind him and produced my stiletto

My embarrassment from earlier couldn’t coether My shoe had flown into his face

"Oh my God," I whispered so low, the words drifted aith the bass of the music "I’m so sorry"

He laughed easily, as if he hadn’t just taken a five-inch stiletto to the face, and glanced from my shoe to me "My nas to you What I want to kno, Cinderella, is if I give this back to you, are you going to run away from me?"

Despite my humiliation, my lips spread into a smile as the name finally made sense I reached for the shoe, but Declan held it away fro for an answer With a raised eyebrow, I said, "I lost both shoes I don’t care what Disney said, a girl can’t run away very easily with only one shoe"

His smirk stretched to matchthe other one that hit the back of o

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I RELEASED A heavy breath and a wide sht beforeforere finally going to be together Not that thirty -distance; but with how crazy both our senior years had been, Declan and I hadn’t gotten nearly enough ti And the tiether had often been filled with other friends or studying Noas just us We’d both graduated a o, had debated on where anted to live, and then searched for the perfect apart in: just finished Live out my happy ever after with boyfriend

"Welcome home," Declan murmured into ainst his chest