CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

No Holding Back

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Dracul

Samantha's question hit me like a sledgehammer. I didn't know what to say or how to react.

No one had ever asked me that before. No one had ever cared about what I was feeling before now, not really.

As a child, the focus had been on survival, and I had been grown for so long now that I barely even remembered that time. I sighed and tried to rein in my emotions, which stampeded along at a great speed.

Samantha was something else, she was.

Right now, when I should be feeling guilty for what happened between Cannis and me, I wanted...