登入Damien's POV:Nyssa rose straight up, her face was stricken with fear for a second, before she screamed out loud."Damien!" her voice was filled with so much pain, it wrecked my heart.Slowly, tears began to slid down her cheeks. My heart nearly stopped as I stared at her in surprise. One second, she was in bed, unconscious. The next, she was upright, her eyes wide, and her chest heaving as terror spread through her body.The force of her voice seemed to shake the entire room, and I immediately moved beside her and gently held her."Nyssa." I called out slowly,Her gaze locked onto mine, but when she turned to face me, she could not recognize me. There was too much pain and grief in her eyes. It was though she had just witnessed something terrible and it had shattered her.Then her breathing began to slow, and gradually, the pain subsided, her eyes grew heavy, and she blinked. The tension slowly left her body, and before I could stop her, she collapsed back onto the mattress. And in a
Lyra's POV:She should have left. She should have. And yet, why was she still here? No matter how long she thought, or how hard she tried. She just couldn’t bring herself to leave.That thought of leaving the ceremony had crossed Lyra's mind at least twenty times since the moment it ended. And yet, she was still there, still standing inside a grand hall that was slowly turning empty. Still holding a half-empty glass and pretending as though she belonged.Even though she didn’t want to acknowledge it, she knew the real reason why she was still there. Nyssa had hurt her. And she hadn’t done it with words, threats or violence. No, Nyssa had hurt her by the absence of reaction in her gaze when she noticed Lyra.The casual dismissal and the ease with which Nyssa had turned around still burned brightly in her mind. She could still recall how frozen she had been when she realized that Nyssa didn’t even care about her. She had never felt so ignored, so empty, so useless before in her life.And
Nyssa's POV:Pain. For the first time in my life, I could not feel anything else but pain.This wasn’t some sort of headache, or discomfort. No, this was pure pain and agony, and it was on a level that I never ever thought could even be possible.The pain that exploded through my skull was so intense that it felt as though someone had driven molten steel directly into my brain. I screamed, not because it could help alleviate the pain, but because it was the only thing I could do.The sound tore itself right through my chest, and it was so intense that I felt my body begin to break from within. Just a few seconds ago, I was in bed with the man I loved with all my heart, completely safe and happy. The next, everything was gone from me.I couldn’t even open my eyes, nor could I breathe, think or move. All I wanted, all I could even want, was just freedom. Was release from this pain.No matter how much I wished for it to end, the pain continued. It was relentless, endless and all-consuming
Damien's POV:"Nyssa?" I called out with a pained voice.One second, everything had been perfect. And the next, she had screamed with far more pain in her voice than I had ever heard before in anyone else's voice.The sound was so harsh and loud that it ripped through the room like the spinning blade of a fan. The moment I heard her scream, I sat upright, my body moving before my brain had even gotten the chance to send the signal to it."Nyssa!" I called out again, my voice filled with fear as I reached out my trembling hands towards her.Nyssa had doubled over on the bed, both of her hands were clutching her head and her entire body was shaking and convulsing, as though she was having a seizure so painful, she could not even control herself.A second after I called out to her, another scream rippled out of her throat. It was raw, agonized, and just terrified enough that for a second, my heart stopped with complete fear.I immediately reached for her shoulders and grabbed it, taking e
Nyssa’s POV:The second his mouth crashed into mine, the entire world disappeared, and in its place, heat and hunger rose up and threatened to devour us.Damien’s tongue shoved deep into my mouth, he was demanding as he locked his arms around my waist and pulled me tightly against his body.My lips parted, and my fingers clawed at his shirt, and I began to yank the fabric of his coat hard. Hard enough that even the buttons began to break and rip off, yanking fabric until buttons gave way.Damien smiled, and slowly began to walk me backwards into the chambers, and not once, as he was doing that, did he break off the kiss.His tongue danced with mine, while his fingers began to gently, but eagerly rip off my clothes. The moment my dress was loose, cool air hit my bare skin as my breasts pounced free.Damien’s hands immediately covered them, and even as we were kissing, he began to slowly fondle them. I moaned when his fingers began to roll over my hard nipples.I was far too lost in him
I blinked, and for a split second, I froze as I stared right at Lyra.I froze not because it was a surprise to see her. The truth was that, if there was anyone I had expected to crash the ceremony, it would have been her.Lyra had been my best friend for decades. I knew what she thought most of the time, and there was no way she would be able to resist the urge to show up. So, while I wasn’t surprised that she had showed up, I was surprised by just how little I cared about her presence.Even though I knew she was going to come, I had expected a small part of me to feel anger at the sight of her, or maybe satisfaction at finally winning. But instead, I felt nothing at all.The desire to walk over to her and send her out of the hall wasn’t even there, even when I momentarily tried to muster it up. Our eyes met, and I watched her grow tense.A flash of fear passed through her eyes, overclouding her rage. She took a step backwards, and prepared to run, but instead of walking towards her li
Nyssa’s POV: The moment my lips met his, everything else disappeared.The city, the noise and the weight of everything else I was feeling, all of it was gone. All I could feel — no, all I wanted to feel – was him. Damien’s lips were warm against mine and this time, they were both firm and careful,
Adrian’s POV:The room was too quiet. This wasn’t the kind of silence that brought peace. No, this silence was suffocating. It pressed in from all sides, and it was thick and heavy, like the air itself knew something was about to break.Adrian stood by the window with his back to the room and his g
My words were a lie. A carefully crafted one, but it was still a lie. I had decided on that answer because it was placed just close enough to the truth to be believable, but far enough from the truth to keep my real secret buried.Visions sounded absurd but not impossible, especially in a world fil
Nyssa’s POV:I genuinely could not stop smiling.It had been almost an hour since the news of the shipment getting lost began to spread through the news and my phone had not stopped ringing since. I had been bombarded with calls after calls and messages after messages. All of them from people who h







