Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter One Hundred and Sixty Thren

Chapter One Hundred and Sixty Three

I awoke in bed, wrapped in a blanket-but beneath it, I was completely naked. Daemon lay beside me.

"I'm sorry." He said, "I lost control."

I recalled passing out and couldn't help but feel embarrassed. "That wasn't on you. It was my fault."

"Not really. You passed out from blood loss. I should have fed before, but I had never tasted any blood as sweet as yours," he said.

"That feels and sounds like a compliment."

A small smile played on his lips. "Now, everything else tastes like dirt."

"You're always welcome to drink from me.

"No. I'm not putting you through that."

I reached for my neck, and the bruise from his fangs was almost completely gone. "How...?"

"You don't have to worry about that," he said.

I nodded, rising from the bed.

"You shouldn't..."

touched the floor, my legs gave out. He caught me instantly and placed me back on the

almost see the guilt in his eyes. Not

you've earned all the

chuckled at that. "That almost

me when I say, you deserve

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listen to that sound for years and

very mysterious. The only mysterious one in the

away from being 'mysterious,' but he-he

"I don't believe you."

the 'Blessed' and all, but I have no idea about your

because it felt like it, but the truth was that I

An orphan. I think there was someone I had been close to back

of you ever suffering..." He closed his

memory away.

I had ignored them then, but now, thinking about

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it took was a woman to throw me off course. History repeats itself." What