Chapter 40: The Goddess Be Damned
THORNE
I could still feel the phantom heat of her skin against my lips as I stalked through the corridors, my hands clenched into fists at my sides.
Fuck.
What the hell was wrong with me?
This wasn't my plan. This wasn't the plan I had in mind.
The plan was to avoid her, ensure I made her suffer.
Every time I looked at her, every time I breathed in that intoxicating scent that was purely hers, I felt my carefully constructed walls crumble piece by piece. And I hated it. I hated how she made me feel like I was losing control, like I was drowning in memories I'd buried so deep they should have stayed dead.
She looked so much like Lily it was f*****g painful.
But her innocent doe eyes were different from hers.
She was so innocent that I felt like cr
