Masuk𝘼𝘽𝘽𝙄𝙀"Are you being serious right now?" I asked. I wasn't sure if I had actually heard him correctly, or if my desperate brain was just hallucinating the words I’d wanted to hear for so long."I'm being serious, Papillon. Let's go on a date." he replied.Wow!So he was really being serious? Since when did he know about a thing called a date?"Tell me, Logan. Did Ox put you up to this? I heard you when you were talking to him this morning." I said."Ox didn't do anything. It came from me..." He paused, and I could practically hear him swallowing his pride on the other end of the line. "...no, actually... I saw it on the internet. A date is one of the major things lovers do."I almost smiled at the image of him scrolling through relationship advice on Google. But the ghost of past pains sharply reminded me of who he was. I forced the smile to die."Listen, Logan Hellfire, maybe you've forgotten that we are not lovers. Why should I go on a date with someone who's not my boyfriend?!
𝘼𝘽𝘽𝙄𝙀"You think he's going to push through with it?" Manon asked, sitting next to me on the bed, while Zenia's eyes lingered on me for answers.When I informed them that I didn't push through with leaving for America as planned, they had rushed over to Ruby's house. And since they were less judgemental than Daisy, I told them everything.It was so humiliating when I returned to Ruby's house and found that Demon didn't just change my clothes. He had literally changed my pads, too.I had been so utterly consumed by terror and panic for him last night that I’d practically charged out into the pouring rain, completely oblivious to my own cycle. I couldn't bring myself to say it out loud to Manon and Zenia... the sheer shame of it was too overwhelming."That's what he told me," I replied, my voice trembling slightly as I tried to anchor myself. "He said he wants to be a better man for me. He wants to love me."Zenia's expression softened into pure, protective worry. She snuggled clos
𝘼𝘽𝘽𝙄𝙀He wants to love me? Like... learn how to love me?My heart hammered violently against my ribs as I stared at Demon. He was completely still, his eyes glued to me with an intensity that made it hard to breathe. Did he seriously mean what he just said, or was this another sick game?No... I shook my head. I can't fall for his trap again. What if he was saying all of these just so he could have sex with me? This was the man who told me men could do anything to get into a woman's panties.He was probably trying to fool me again, just so he could fuck me and dump me afterwards. I wasn't going to fall for it. I had learned the hard way when he heartlessly compared me to Jade, tearing my dignity to shreds."Papillon," he tried to touch me, but I quickly took a step backward."Don't even think about touching me!" I snapped, raw, hot anger surging through my veins. "You must really think I'm an absolute fool! Do you honestly believe I'd just fall to my knees because you threw these
𝙇𝙊𝙂𝘼𝙉I laid beside her on the bed, watching her sleep, her chest rising and falling slowly. The morning sun was already up, but she was still sleeping so soundly.I had changed her out of her wet clothes and into one of my t-shirts. She was so deep in her sleep that she didn’t even notice when I changed her. Even when I carried her from my room floor to her bed, she remained unaware.As my eyes lingered on her, I felt a pang of guilt swelling inside my chest. Despite everything I had done to her, she still showed up last night because she knew I was scared of thunder.When she held me tight last night, covering my ears against the angry thunder, it made me realize that she actually cared for me... and it brought me to the conclusion that she truly loved me. If she didn’t, she would have let the darkness take me. She would have walked away when she had the chance to leave me drowning in my own terror.She didn’t abandon me. She stayed until the last echoes of the storm faded and
𝘼𝘽𝘽𝙄𝙀By the time I arrived at Demon’s house, I was already drenched. The heavy downpour had started while I was still running, raining so hard that thunder aggressively ripped through the sky as if it were mad at the world.I made my way up the long flight of stairs until I finally reached the doorstep. Shivering, I stared at the brand-new biometric scanner. Demon had replaced it after Tiffany sent her men to destroy the old one, but he hadn’t registered my fingerprint on this new system yet.If the door was locked, it meant I wouldn’t be able to go in.“Demon!” I yelled, pounding my fists against the surface as a massive crack of thunder tore through the air.“Demon!” I yelled more loudly, knocking on the door. When he didn’t answer, I twisted the knob of the door, and that was when I actually discovered it was open.Demon never left his door unlocked. Maybe the electronic system had malfunctioned under the weight of the storm, or maybe he had been too paralyzed to care. I didn
𝘼𝘽𝘽𝙄𝙀"How did you...?""How did I know?" Ruby cut me off gently, a soft, knowing smile playing on her lips.I stared at her, slowly nodding my head. A dizzying wave of heat rushed to my face. I was completely paralyzed with shock. I knew for a fact I had never breathed a word about it to her. Was it really that obvious? Were there physical markers? Did my body look different? Was there some kind of invisible symptom that gave it away the second a girl was no longer a virgin?"Honestly, Abbie, I’ve known that something intense was brewing between you and Logan for a while now," Ruby explained. "I just pretended to be oblivious because I was waiting for you to be ready to open up to me. But it really seemed like you had every intention of carrying the secret all the way back to California."I swallowed hard, my fingers instinctively drifting up to touch my earlobe. "Are... are you mad at me, Ruby? Are you disappointed?" I whispered, my voice barely audible."Mad? Yeah, I'm a littl
𝘼𝘽𝘽𝙄𝙀The kiss hit me like a bolt of electricity. Never... never in a million years did I expect Demon to kiss me… not after he had just shot at me.This was the same Demon who told me to get lost like I was nothing.I didn't want the kiss.I swear to God, I didn't.My first kiss was supposed
𝘼𝘽𝘽𝙄𝙀Chaney had brought me over to Ruby's salon after I had stopped crying. He didn't stop me hugging until I no longer had any tears to shed.Demon was really cruel to have done that to me. For a moment, I had thought that he was really cool and that maybe... just a little maybe we could be
𝙇𝙊𝙂𝘼𝙉I shot her.I pulled the trigger… at Papillon.I've never missed a target... not once. Not ever.If I truly wanted her dead, the bullet would've gone straight through her skull—clean, precise… final. Not a warning shot grazing past her neck like that.I didn't want to kill her.I just wa
𝘼𝘽𝘽𝙄𝙀He killed someone. He did it so effortlessly. Smashing that man's head against the wall as if he were smashing a ball into the wall.That was the first thing that pried into my mind when I woke up and found myself in my room.He had brought me home.Though I was unconscious, I could fain







