Chapter 39
Amber Whyte.
My heart flopped nervously. It jammed against the cages of my ribs like it wanted to explode.
My stomach churned as fear crept into my soul.
No! This was a terrible idea.
What were they thinking?!
Delilah would kill me the second she found out that I attended a function with her mate.
It would confirm her suspicion and fuel her hatred.
I can't let this happen.
I started panicking, hyperventilating as vivid images of the kinds of death Delilah would give me flashed in my memory.
Fear squeezed the air I dragged into my lungs.
My body was blanketed in goosebumps.
But Hael's large palm cupped my face in the peak of my worries. The tip of his thumb brushed over my cheeks, drawing invisible lines to the curve of my bloodshot lips.
Like candle wax, I m
