ELION

The second I felt her pulse jump beneath my grip, something beastly inside me strained against its leash.

That part of me that I spent three days trying and failing to bury.

“Tell me something, Rea,” I breathed into the space between us “Do you enjoy making me choose between my sanity and you?”

Her eyes, those impossible ethereal eyes stared up at me with strong will and defiance, it made my blood hot for all the wrong reasons

“If it means you'll finally stop avoiding me” Loretta tilted her head in my grip, her eyes ablaze with a fire I've never seen before “Then yes, go mad for...