Chapter Forty-Nine

The haughty tone in which she professed those words took me aback, and my body tensed and my hands became fists, and she noticed, even though my demon raised his head in awareness, the need of dominating her rising in him. I didn’t expect that from her in any way possible, and if I Anton’s news didn’t shake me up enough, now I’ve got speechless by her lack of emotions, but the worst was the painful tightness in my throat and the broken feeling that settled in my chest. In a speedy second my hands flew to her neck again and long hair, pulling them down, so she faced me.

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