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Chapter sixty five: Heat and Thorns

Author: Bodypeng
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-23 21:41:58

Alina

My cheeks burned.

His words echoed in my head, looping like a song I didn’t know how to turn off.

What do you think?

I couldn’t answer. I didn’t know how to answer. It wasn’t just the words—it was how he said them, the heat in his voice, the look in his eyes like I had done something… remarkable. Like I mattered. Like I wasn’t just another omega who’d stumbled into the ring.

I tried to breathe, but even that felt shaky. I opened my mouth, shut it again, then finally admitted the truth in the most pathetic whisper I’d ever heard come out of me.

“I don’t know.”

I wanted to say more. I wanted to say everything—about how confused I was, how I couldn’t make sense of the way he made me feel, how I still didn’t trust myself not to fall apart in front of him.

But all I had was that one, miserable sentence.

He didn’t seem to mind.

Instead, he smiled—gently, like he wasn’t laughing at me, like he understood. Then he shook his head slowly, thumb grazing my cheek in a way that made my breat
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