So this was how Raphael Malfoy turned on the charms for all those debutantes. Rowan dropped her free arm to her side, tempted to flex her hand and change her mind. But despite all that had happened that night, it would give him cause for suspicion. It was a masquerade after all, and he would never have to know her identity.

She might as well spend the rest of the night in this charade until the very end.

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