Torak sighed, throwing the data screen he was holding across the desk. He had been holding the damn thing for the past hour and couldn’t have told a single person what was on it. He hated the silence between him and River.
At first he had just been too angry to talk. He had made love to her in the bathing pool, his body desperate to know she was okay. He had to leave right after that because he would have taken her again and again. He could feel himself losing control as the fear he felt at almost losing her again washed through him with such violence, it had almost felt physical. He didn’t want to hurt her.
Afterward, he had wanted to punish her. It broke his heart when he came to bed and saw the evidence of her tears on her face or heard her plead with him to stay and hold her after th
