Damien's POV
I let out a long breath and forced a smile humorlessly
“Put on your clothes, Valessa.”
Her brow arched at my sudden calm, but she bent anyway, picking the crumpled dress from the floor. She slipped it back over her body slowly, as though trying to remind me of what I’d rejected. I didn’t give her the satisfaction of looking.
When she was done, I sat back on the bed, my elbows resting on my knees as my eyes fixed on her.
“Since you claim to know so much,” I said, voice low but steady, “then tell me what Aurora really is. You were close to her during her heat. You touched her. Maybe even more. You must have felt it. I know she’s a Tribrid, witch and wolf. But the other part of her…” I shook my head, my jaw tight. “That’s what controls everything else in her. That’s what I
