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ARTEMIS AKA WOLF

LATER THAT EVENING...

As a headache develops in the back of my head, I pace the office floor while combing both of my hands through my rumpled dark hair.

"I want you to show me everything. I want you to show me what it is like to be loved by the cruellest man alive, how to protect myself, and make people fear me as they do you."

I am consumed by the sound of her sweet voice as her words continue to repeat in my brain like a broken record that won't stop.

I approach my desk, resting the palms of my hands on the oak slab as I tower over it, and study the picture of my late first wife Anastazia, that rests next to my laptop. After her passing, I vowed that my traitorous heart would never belong to another individual again.

And yet, here I am, kindling an illicit attraction. A raging fire capable of consuming both of us. It shouldn't excite or exhilarate my throbbing loins as much as it does, but the reality is I never want it to end.

I have never felt this alive no