Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter 572

Chapter One Hundred and Eighty Four

Chapter One Hundred and Eighty Four

"I shouldn't have left you alone with her," Daemon said.

"I could handle myself."

"Yes, I saw," he said with a small smirk.

"Your eyes... they're darker," I noted. "You haven't fed yet, have you?"

"It's nothing to worry about," he said, rolling up my shirt to reveal the bruise from Tasha's kick. A low, inhuman hiss escaped his lips. "I shouldn't have let her die that easily," he said-and I knew he meant it.

"Daemon, it's fine. It's just a bruise-it'll heal in a few days," I said.

I was used to bruises, ones far worse than this. One of Julia's favorite

punishments had been whipping, so this was nothing.

"What are you thinking about?" Daemon asked as he applied a colorless ointment

to the bruise.

“Nothing,” I lied, but the way his brow cocked told me he knew better.

"I was thinking about Julia and how much she loved her whip."

He paused, and I wondered if I'd said something wrong.

"She will never get her hands on you again. I'll make sure of that," he promised- and I believed him.

I recalled what Ash had told me earlier.

me, didn't you?" My eyes met his. "Do you think I'm useless to them

is a vital part of their 'sacrifice They

"But earlier you said..."

what

very aware of his hands on

you fed

"I will."

"When?"

"Soon."

I said, though it came out more like

"No."

guilt, that I spoke about her like she didn't just die some minutes ago.

he said, his eyes turning completely black before fading back to their original color. I doubted he

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he was done applying the ointment, I rose

asked, but I didn't respond. Instead, I opened the drawer and took out the small knife I'd noticed there a

moved too fast-too fast for me to react- and in an instant, the knife was gone from my

you doing?" he demanded, surprisé flashing

red welled on my wrist, and a single drop

expression darkening as if he were fighting an

war.

now. He bit into my wrist, and the pleasure seeped into me. I let out a small moan, a smile spreading on my lips.

away too soon, barely

He whispered, placing a kiss on my forehead and

needed to ask the question that had been

to ask

"Always curious. Well, I'm all

and just like back in the hotel, his

I also told

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