Why had she waited so long to sleep with him? She was attracted to Leo. She had feelings for him. And yet, she couldn’t pull the trigger—couldn’t let him all the way in. To sleep with him would be to lie to him. If Leo knew who she really was—if he knew she was a Hybreed—he wouldn’t want her anymore. He would be repulsed by her; Tem was sure of it. Or was she? Tem never gave Leo the benefit of the doubt. She always assumed the worst of him, even when he’d only given her reason to assume the opposite. Did she truly have so little faith in him? Perhaps of the two of them, Tem was the unworthy
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