ARYA
I fled. And he let me. The monster was blind. Those words repeated themselves over and over again as I stumbled into my room and took off my clothes. Naked, I stood in the middle of the room, panting. Shouldn't I be happy that I'd brought him so low? Why then did my heartache?
Tears crawled down my cheeks as I stepped into the bathroom to take a shower. The water was icy cold, but I didn't flinch. I stood there for a while, my heart bleeding dry.
Daxton did not deserve my sympathy. He deserved something worse than blindness...
Yet...
I brought a hand to my neck where he had drunk from me. I closed my eyes, a sigh escaping my lips. My body had desired him.
Deep down, there was a part of me that felt uncertain about everything that had happened within the past few hours. I'd been
