chapter27

With a wry smile, I said, "It seems like I misunderstood. However..." I paused. "I asked you before if I could have a boyfriend, and you said it was up to me. Since I have a boyfriend, it's normal for me and him to have sex, don't you think?" Griffon was stunned, and his face became even darker, his eyes glowing even brighter with his wolf.

Before I could stop my hand, before I could think about what I was doing, I reached up and ran my fingers over the furrows between his eyebrows as if trying to smooth them out. Trying to erase the anger on his face. This was the man I had loved for five years. How could I bear to hurt him like this?

But he didn't love me-not even a tiny bit of "like". Why couldn't I let go? Why did I care if I managed to hurt him one tiny sliver of what he'd made me feel?

He grabbed my wrist.

"Don't touch me!" he growled. "You're filthy now."

hearing him say I

someone else had touched something that belonged to him, it was tarnished, dirty,

and looked at the hand that was tightly gripping my

bottle in my hopeful thoughts. "Or...do you not want to let go?" Everything before this felt like an act I was putting on. And now... Now, I was the most authentic version of myself. The woman who was

through. The killing intent in

any hesitation, he pushed me away, snarling,

I was leaning against. My tailbone banged against the sidewalk as I landed in a sprawled heap, dressed

I tucked my tangled hair behind my ear, picked up the torn clothes, and put them

and stood to walk down the sidewalk, mustering all the bravery and composure I could, praying no

away from the parked Town Car, Griffon stopped

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