Chapter 165 Tessa

• Charles
• As I stood in front of the mirror, adjusting my suit, a sense of contentment washed over me. The anticipation of addressing the Clans during the Winter Moon Festival filled me with pride and purpose, but no year had ever felt quite like this. I would be apart from Grace for a week starting today, but I could still taste her, still smell her delicious scent growing spicy with desire.
• She'd been near insatiable since that first night. I left her sleeping in her own bed around dawn this morning.