"Scary? Gale, are you afraid of me?"

"It's just when you said Aurum would marry a substitute earlier, you look scary."

"Who says he's the loser? Am I the winner?"

Gale swallowed hard. "If Aurum really ends up marrying someone similar to me, wouldn't you find it abhorrent?"

"Not at all, because that person isn't you," Shawn replied.

Gale shivered, goosebumps rising.

Men's thought processes were truly incomprehensible, especially their intense desire for competition.

"Anyway, Aurum and I ha