Chapter 56
Dermos’s POV
I felt at ease, at rest. I felt the walls around me crumbling fast with every touch.
That was the extent to which Luciana's touch fought my resilience.
Her fingers lingered on places that they should never have been in the first place.
Her thumb from her other hand brushed over my knuckles slowly while she rested the other on my chest.
She wasn’t rushing; she wasn’t forcing anything. She was playing it patiently and with confidence.
“You don’t have to fight everything,” she murmured softly as she leaned so close to me I felt her breath against my skin.
Her other hand slid up my arm again, drawing lines over the tension in my muscles as though she had been studying me.
I didn’t pull away.
At least not immediately.
My body was still not ready, and my mind c
