Talia's POV

I was seriously beginning to reconsider a lot of things. Reconsider why I just would not take Kael's offer up and spend the rest of my miserable existence with him here, safely tucked far away from everyone who could hurt me.

But I wanted more. I was greedy and I hated it. I just did not want to settle for not knowing what life meant beyond these walls. While I got lost in my head, he pulled me closer to him carefully avoiding all the parts of my skin that were either welts or plain open wounds, leaving very little room for him to rub his big masculine...