Chapter 0722

"So!?" I say, leaning forward in turn and matching his tone, my hand still clamped to the wound on my neck.

"So- so we had sex!" Luca shouts, baffled and freaked out and afraid. "So you picked me! You picked me, Ariel! I gave you my mark because you picked me!"

I go perfectly still as I stare at Luca, my mouth slightly open.

Because that...that is not at all what happened.

I mean, we just had sex - we had a horrible few days, and had a bunch to drink, and we took refuge in each other -

And I love Luca desperately, but I did not choose him.

"Luca," I say, quite slow, "I did not pick you. I am not rejecting Jackson. We just had sex -"

"It's the same thing!" he roars, staring at me like I'm insane, or that he might be going insane, or that the world itself is broken and horrible and he's somehow just lost in it.

bed, grabbing his underwear and hastily pulling them on before striding away from me, his hands getting lost in his hair as he turns his

again, gathering the blankets to my chest and looking down at my shaking hands. Because even if Luca and I greatly misunderstood what was happening today, I see his side of it - I see what he means. He thought that breaking the stupid sex pact was not just us having sex, but me fulfilling the terms of

remember - that I wouldn't have sex with one of them until

has happened since then - so much has grown and changed

only gets one chance to mark his mate. I

and sniff hard then, because he's right. It shouldn't

hitting me again foreverything that has been lost and ruined in these past few days. I tried to escape it, to run from it, but god...god,

you?" Luca asks, a nasty tone in his voice now. "Why, because that's

lower lip trembling in my agony. "Why are you

in my soul, prowling towards mine. "It's

like - Jackson would never do that

maybe you should

him, Ariel!" Luca shouts, vicious. "If he always does everything right and he's so fucking perfect,

dread coiling within me, and slowly close my

between us as Luca reads

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