The rain never let up, a cold, endless curtain that turned the world gray and blurred the edges of everything except him. Lucian's arms locked around my waist like steel, keeping me upright when my knees had long since buckled. My body still quivered from his mouth—aftershocks rippling through my core, clit throbbing with every heartbeat—but the venom had only changed shape. It no longer burned bright and frantic; it sank slow and heavy, pooling low in my belly, turning every shallow breath into a silent, desperate beg: fill me, break me, own me completely. He straightened, water cascading off the hard planes of his shoulders, down the carved lines of his chest. His face was a ruin of me—rain-streaked blood, my slickness shining on his lips and chin, eyes gone fully black, no silver left, just endless night staring back. When he stepped in close I felt the full length of him press against my stomach: thick, rigid, straining so hard against the wet fabric of his pants it looked painfu
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