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Chapter 24: Walls coming down

Author: Liana evadne
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-19 19:21:05

Victor's POV

The door clicked shut behind her. The sound echoed in the sudden silence of my room.

I stood frozen in the middle of the space that had always been my sanctuary, my fortress. Now it felt different. The air was different. It still carried her scent , that fresh, flower, like smell that was entirely her own. My hands wouldn't stop trembling. I stared at them, these hands that had just held her, touched her, and I curled them into tight fists until my knuckles turned white.

What in God's name had I just done?

My body remembered everything. The memory of her body pressed against mine was burned into my skin. So small, so warm, so alive beneath my hands. My lips still tingled with the taste of her , young, sweet, intoxicating. She hadn't just allowed the kiss; she had met it with a fire that shocked me, that called to something deep and dangerous within me.

She was supposed to be just a girl. The broken thing I'd fished out of the river. I gave her a name, a purpose, a roof ov
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