Adrian’s POV“Are you ready? I won’t do this unless you’re a hundred percent sure” I said delicately.She gulped nervously and didn’t answer me.We were sitting in the living room alone on the long couch after we finished breakfast.I was trying to give her a little more time to be ready because I could sense how panicked she is.My hand rubbed her back gently, she looked two seconds away from a panic attack.She shook her head and stood up “I can’t Adrian. I thought I could but I just can’t imagine you seeing everything”I stood up and put my hands on her shoulders “You’re still afraid of me watching you do those things? Rhea I know you had no choice. It wouldn’t change a thing about my opinion of you”We already discussed this so many times, but I understood her hesitation completely. Fear and shame were rooted very deep inside her. It was all she’s ever known her whole life. It wasn’t going to disappear in four days, and I wasn’t going to get tired of repeating this not for a milli

*Trigger Warning: Sensitive content containing physical abuse and violence*Adrian’s POVMost of the memories were pretty much one and the same through her various ages. Her getting punished by her older rogue members violently for different reasons and stupid mistakes that don’t even prompt this extremely harsh treatment. Some of the memories had alpha Victor watching her suffer with a satisfied, cold look on his face while others were done by who ever was in charge of taking care of her during her younger years.I watched her get whipped in various places on her body with a belt, a thin tree branch, and a whip, beaten in a soul destroying degree, slapped, cut, and burned.I watched her starving for food when she was too young to shift or depend on herself to find anything edible and saw the assholes giving her tree leaves to eat on, rotten fruits from the trees, or horrifyingly, the dirt on the forest ground. Whenever she cried for something else or tried to deny what the rogue gave

Rhea’s POV “May I kiss you, Rhea?” I stared at him in surprise, not able to form an answer right away as I let his request sink in. My lips started tingling in response right away, urging me to say yes, encouraging me to let them be kissed by him, to let myself explore this new aspect of our relationship. I have to admit, his reaction to what he saw in my memories took me completely by surprise. Every time I panicked about what he intended to do, he assured me continuously that nothing can change the way he feels about me. A part of me believed him, trusted that he would understand what happened in the past, and decide to forgive me anyway because he knows that I was forced to be like them. But another part of me; the part that was raised to be doubtful and fearful for as long as I can remember, the part that got rooted inside me due to the way I grew up, kept planting its poisonous doubts in me that I will never have someone standing by my side, not even my mate. Before I went to

Rhea’s POV“I love how completely satisfying your body craves and responds to my touches” he said huskily as his hands continued to knead my breasts tenderly.His fingers started playing with my nipples while his lips trailed soft kisses all over my chest.He knew exactly what he was doing because the pleasure was increasing the more his fingers played with my stiff nipples.I moaned so softly as I basked in the great feeling he was erupting inside me.I gasped when his mouth closed on one of my nipples and screamed his name when his tongue started licking it hungrily.The intense euphoria made my eyes close and my mouth release a string of moans I could not hold back or control.I was literally in heaven under him and I wanted to stay in this special place forever.He shifted to my other nipple as he sucked on it so fervently, making desire explode inside me with a more stronger intensity.I was writing with a blinding pleasure and it was driving me crazy but no part of me wanted him

Adrian’s POVWhen we broke our kiss, she buried her face against my neck and hugged me to her tightly, overwhelmed with emotions because of our very first amazing experience together.Warmth spread inside me and I found myself holding her firmly, positioning her over my lap as I laid my back against the headboard of my bed, and burying my face against her neck as well.We stayed like this for a long time, neither of us speaking. We needed this intimate closure to seal our souls together after everything we learned today, whether it was the prophecy we saw or the memories I witnessed. We needed this soul mending moment to come to terms with the fact that we are completely moving on together into a place more open and guaranteed. She finally believed that nothing she did in the past made her a monster, be it in my eyes or in her own.The pain filled memories of her miserable life that I saw truly killed me. I can never forget those memories or the way she was deeply suffering in them, b