Shock. That was what Ulric felt. No. Ulric couldn’t deny it. He felt as though he would burst out of his own skin if he didn’t have her soon. That’s why he kept his distance. Every time they got close, his self-control took a dive off a cliff and everything exploded around them. But he was shocked she had just come out and said it so plainly while he had been silently chewing on it for endless hours.
The mere act of standing in the same room with her was about driving him out of his mind. Breathing in her scent every time he entered the basement was the equivalent of pouring a drum of gasoline on an open flame. The fire was hot, and he wanted it to consume them both.
Tate had told him to either sort out the problem or get rid of it. There was no point denying it. He couldn’t get rid of t
