Chapter 96

• VEDA
• When I woke up, the sun was shining through the window and Luca was no longer in bed. I rolled over with a yawn, feeling the sting of air hitting the small cut on my jaw that hadn’t had time yet to heal, and slowly blinked my eyes open as memories of last night came rushing back. My cheeks burned as I remembered how I’d lashed out at Luca. The crazy thing I’d become in his arms as he’d pushed through the wall I’d built up around myself.
• Something was very different now, though. And it wasn’t just that I was physically satiated. There was shame for how I’d acted. Embarrassment for how I’d let him play me and how much I’d enjoyed it. But also…a strange sort of peace. All of the pent-up fear and rage that I’d hoarded inside the past few weeks was gone. Exorcised like a demon by Luca’s unholy act of lust. I turned my head toward his side of the bed, extending my arm until I could touch his pillow. Too many emotions to name tangled inside of me as I plucked at the edge of the case covering it. I could still smell him in the bed, a mixture of clean soap and some kind of dark spice from whatever he wore on his skin. It made me rub my thighs together in an effort to ease the ache between them, the soreness from last night forgotten with my sudden need to feel his thick cock sinking into me again.