Chapter 81: The Candle

Kaden’s POV

“What about my eyes, Kaden?” Liliana asks. She continues stroking me down there, making me want to do all kinds of things with her.

“Nothing…I don’t remember what I wanted to say.”

Her robe pools to the ground, revealing her in all her naked glory and my eyes trail down her face, her neck, her –

Wait.

“There’s a mark on your shoulder.” My eyes narrow. I may not remember many things right now, but one thing is for sure, I did not mark her.

Liliana laughs, her voice throaty.

“Why, your cousins marked me Kaden. Don’t you remember? But you haven’t and tonight, it will be your turn.”

Her words weave around me, clouding my judgment. The boundaries of reality blur as I teeter on the precipice between surrender and scepticism.

My mind struggles to untangle the threads of truth from the web of illusion. Each sultry glance and whispered word pulls me deeper.

She steps even closer, puts both arms around my neck and leans in for a kiss. But my eyes keep going back to the mark on her s