He was no longer human. He was no longer treating her as a human. The little bit of tenderness he had shown in the past had somehow disappeared. When he ravaged her, it felt like punishment, or more accurately, like hatred.

She was the daughter of his enemy, but there was now this layer of relationship between them. He could have easily used and discarded her, yet Dylan found himself unable to do so.

His attraction to her was a mixture of lust and tenderness, but above all, it was an inexplicable, terrifying obsession that surpassed even the strongest of musk perfumes.

"I want to go home... I want to...