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CHAPTER 26
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2026-02-02 01:56:22
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CRAVING THE WRONG MAN: DANGEROUS DESIRES BOOK 1 Chapter 185
Rhaena's POVHis forehead dropped against mine.“I thought you would leave.”“I’m sitting on your bed,” I said. My voice broke. “I let you wash my hair this morning. I let you see every mark I hate. I am not leaving. I was more afraid of dying without telling you I loved you than I am of this. That has to mean something.”A breath left him, shaky and relieved. His hands came up to cover mine, holding them against his face.“It means everything.”I waited for guilt to come.It did not come the way I thought it would.I tried to remember Jake as someone worth mourning. I tried to see the boy from the beginning. All I could see was the chair. The slap. The smile when he said if he could not have me, no one else would. The smoke.He had left me to burn to death.He had taken the money and still tried to take my life.I could not bring myself to feel sorry that he was gone.That should have frightened me more than it did.“I should feel guilty,” I whispered.“Do you?”I shook my head again
CRAVING THE WRONG MAN: DANGEROUS DESIRES BOOK 1 Chapter 184
Rhaena's POVThe first time I was embarrassed. I sat on the closed lid of the toilet while he checked the water with his wrist. He helped me in slow. He washed my hair with careful hands and kept a towel close so I would not get cold. When the water touched a burn on my arm, I hissed, and he said sorry like he had been the one who hurt me.He fed me when my hands shook. Soup. Toast. Fruit cut into small pieces. I told him I could feed myself. He said he knew. Then he did it anyway.At night he put ointment on the burns that still needed it. I sat on the edge of his bed in one of his shirts and watched his face while he worked. He was so careful. His thumb never pressed too hard. Once he blew on the worst spot without thinking, then looked embarrassed.Yesterday evening he found me staring at my arm.The lamp on his nightstand made the mark look worse. Pink. Tight. A thing I could not take off no matter how hard I wished it away. I turned my arm in the mirror and hated the girl looking
CRAVING THE WRONG MAN: DANGEROUS DESIRES BOOK 1 Chapter 183
Rhaena's POVI was back in that God-awful room with Jake.The chair. The ropes. The smell of dust and old smoke. His smile when he said if he could not have me, no one else would. Only this time he did not leave me to burn alone. This time the fire came faster. This time Alessio did not make it.I heard myself screaming his name and there was no answer. Heat swallowed the doorway. Jake laughed through it. Then the room went orange and I could not find the floor.I woke up in a cold sweat.The hospital room slammed back around me. The soft lamp. The machine. The clean sheets. My heart was trying to climb out of my chest. My hands were shaking so hard the blanket whispered.I did not even have to scream.Alessio was already there.He came off the couch like he had never been fully asleep. One second he was across the room. The next he was at the bed, hands on my face, eyes dark with panic.“Rhaena. Hey. Look at me. You’re here. You’re safe.”I grabbed his shirt with both hands and pulle
CRAVING THE WRONG MAN: DANGEROUS DESIRES BOOK 1 Chapter 182
Alessio’s POVI faced Moirraine and wondered if she had overheard me speaking to Callum.The hallway smelled like antiseptic and burnt coffee. Fluorescent light sat hard on her face. She had tears in her eyes. For a second she only looked at me, like she was measuring the day on my skin.Then she threw her arms around me.The hug was sudden and tight. She held on like she needed proof I was real. I stood still at first. Then I put my arms around her too and felt her shake once, hard.“Thank you,” she said into my shoulder. “Thank you for saving my child. Thank you for bringing her back to me. I kept seeing her in that fire. I kept thinking I would walk into this hospital and they would tell me I was too late.”I closed my eyes.“You don’t have to thank me for that,” I said when we pulled apart. “Not for saving the woman I love.”Moirraine looked up at me. Her hands stayed on my arms.“I know,” she said. “Rhaena told me. After you left the room.”My heart skipped so hard it hurt.“She
CRAVING THE WRONG MAN: DANGEROUS DESIRES BOOK 1 Chapter 181
Rhaena’s POVSandro came closer to the bed. He looked older in the hospital light, but his voice was steady.“We could never hate you for choosing love,” he said. “And I could never hate you for loving my son.”I stared at him.“Even like this? Even with how it looks?”“It looks complicated,” he said. “That is true. You are not children. You did not grow up in the same house as brother and sister. You met as adults. What you feel is not a crime. What that man did to you was.”Mum wiped her face with the back of her hand.“I almost lost you today,” she said. “Do you understand that? I sat on a plane thinking I would have to bury my only child. I do not have room left to punish you for being alive and in love.”I started crying then. I could not help it. It was not loud. It just came, hot and helpless.Mum leaned in and kissed my forehead.“You have been carrying this by yourself,” she said. “You do not have to anymore.”Sandro put his hand on the rail of the bed.“Alessio is my son,” h
CRAVING THE WRONG MAN: DANGEROUS DESIRES BOOK 1 Chapter 180
Rhaena’s POVAfter Alessio left to answer his phone, my mum sat by my side. She still looked scared. She could not stop touching me. My hair. My cheek. The edge of the blanket. Like if she stopped, I would disappear forever.I still could not believe I had made it out alive. The fire. The smoke. The chair. Jake’s smile when he said if he could not have me, no one else would. All of it felt close enough to touch and far enough that it might have been a nightmare.Alessio had found me in time.Even with the burns, even with the ache in my chest when I breathed, I was alive. That was the most important thing. I did not know if my mum would have been able to survive losing me. Looking at her now, I did not think she would have.My eyes went to Sandro. He stood near the window, still in travel clothes, his hands in his pockets like he did not know what to do with them. There was still fear in his eyes. Not as loud as my mother’s, but it was there. The kind of fear that stays after the wors
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