The next morning, Venus opened up her eyes to find Adonis looking at her sleeping face. She couldn’t believe that she had mated with him the other night. He was betrothed to someone else. Out of guilt, she hurried to wear her dress back and tried to sneak out of the room.
Adonis wrapped his hands around her waist and pulled her back into his bed. With her back resting on Adonis’s chest, she felt extremely comfortable. That was all she had longed for since her rebirth - to be held by her paramour.
In that very moment, she again forgot that her mate was the only person who betrayed her and left her rotting in the cell of the facility. She was blinded to believe that he had changed, or perhaps he remembered her vaguely now. She was deluded to believe that he was considering Venus the woman
