MatthewI thought I was finally going to end it. Maybe I should have. I didn’t even know why I had stayed alive this long. A piece of me had died with my daughter, and what remained was nothing but hunger, hunger to conquer, to possess, to control. That was how I survived. Anytime memories of her surfaced, I shoved them down, forced myself to forget. Forget her laugh. Forget how complete she made me feel.But when I was about to drown in that pain again, another pair of eyes burned through the darkness, fierce, unrelenting, challenging. Her eyes. And suddenly, I remembered there was still a reason for me to stick around. That reason was wrapped around me now, arms tight, head pressed against my shoulder instead of shoving me away and pretending she didn’t want me.I held her closer, breathing in her scent, sharp, spicy, nothing delicate about it. Nothing fragile. She was fire and steel, and fuck, that made me want to ravish her. That’s when I became painfully aware of the way she was
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