~ LAIA~
My body feels like it’s on fire. Everything inside me burns, warm, wild, strange.
His chest presses against my back, his scent everywhere, intoxicating. The heat pooling between my legs feels foreign, and I don’t understand why my body reacts this way to this, to him.
Cael’s face flashes behind my closed eyes, and I press them harder. No no no! He has no right. He threw me away, he didn’t want me. I don’t owe him anything. I don’t. Guilt clutches my heart and squeezes, until I want to howl.
As if sensing something, Damon’s hand in my hair pulls tighter making the skin underneath sing with pain. Liquid hot desire rushes into my lower belly.
“Almost done,” he says, his voice all gravel, as he takes my wrist and his thumb rubs at my pulse there. I shiver underneath him. All his w
