Chapter Thirty

I woke up with a smile on my face. I didn’t know how long I had slept, but I hadn’t felt this rested since I came here. I was alone on the bed; ‘s not like I expected him to stay.

I couldn’t help but remember everything that had happened last night, and my lower kind of numb. I tried standing up.

That was a big mistake. I lay back down.

“You shouldn’t try that.” The voice called. I hadn’t noticed Axel on the cushion.

“How long have you been here?”

part felt

“A couple of hours,” he says, and I didn’t miss the fact that I was naked, with a lot of evidence of what I had just done with Thane. “You look totally fucked,” he commented with a smirk, and I turned red. He did have a hidden ability to embarrass me.

I pulled up the covers in an attempt to cover my nudity.

“I’m not trying to humiliate you, Riley, but there’s literally no part of you I haven’t seen yet.”

“I think you and Thane are freaks,” I say, and I do mean it, but I abandoned the covers. He was right, though. “Where is he?”

“He’s gone. I think he feels guilty, and that is very strange.”

“Why?”

“He did hurt you, and that’s why he called for me to stay here with you for a while.”

did you know that?, he

did tell you about the bond I share with him. I can feel his

“And

think he feels guilty?”

don’t think;

through my mind. “You could feel every one of his

stronger ones are easier

“Like…”

wants, his desires.” Axel explained

it

worry about Thane’s whereabouts; Thane had been with Beatrix then. I did wonder how he knew that; I thought it had only been a suspicion but now

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Chapter Thirty

and before he left, he had said the words, ‘I’m sorry‘, It hadn’t occurred to me that he might be apologizing for what he was about to

it to me; who he fucked was none of my business, but he had promised to end it. I wondered if I had been good enough. I was no pro; I was no expert as he certainly was, and

it feel last

wasn’t just saying that for my benefit. But I felt the same; even through the pain, that had also been one

to take a

draw a bathe for you,”

returned a few minutes later.

are you doing?” I asked when he came

can’t harm

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