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“Run and hide from me if you must, butterfly.” He leaned close to press his lips to the corner of my mouth, his eyes brightening and piercing mine. “Make my cock even harder than you already do.”
“If they were, you’d see that I care far more than I ever wanted to.” He laughed, but it held no humor. “You’d see that I feared for you. I’ve tortured and killed for you. I went insane with desperation to get you back, and I couldn’t, Tullia. I couldn’t reach you.” His chest heaved. “Every time I came close to sleep, it was stunted by terror.” He swallowed thickly. “By thoughts of what he might be doing to you, and you…”
Despite all I’d done, despite all she still refused to give me, it was me she’d materialized to. I was her place of refuge.
I’m so wretchedly in love with you, it’s both saved and damned me.”
He was kissing the traitor brand.
I would be just as they all expected. I’d become the creature I feared more than anything in these treacherous lands.
“You are a light in my soul that unearthed my heart. You now hold it in the palms of your perfect hands, and to say that has been an adjustment is a fucking understatement.”
The same lace pattern lined the deep dip at my lower back—outlining the exposed traitor brand I wore on full display.
It had since become one of my favorite places to be, so I made sure to visit at least once a month. Books lined every wall, in stacks and within shelves.
