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..."

moment my feet touched the floor, my legs gave out. He caught me instantly

said, and I could almost see the guilt in his eyes. Not many things made

earned all the points that

that. "That

when I say, you deserve them all, mystery

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from him; I could listen to that sound for years and

am not very mysterious. The only mysterious one in the

am very far away from being 'mysterious,' but he-he

"I don't believe you."

all, but I have no idea about your past. Did you spend all your life in the

say yes, because it felt like it, but

most of my life, I lived in the castle. But I still faintly remember a time before that. I was young-a child. An orphan. I think there was someone I had been close to back then, but I can't remember. All I know is that the Empress took me away from that miserable life, only to subject me to another equally miserable

years ago, but the thought of you ever

memory away.

from weeks ago. I had ignored them then, but now,

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woman to throw me off course. History repeats