All Chapters of The Alpha's Human Dancer (An Erotica): Chapter 11

EdricI don’t realize how far Leon has taken me until he slows and the city noise falls far away like it’s been swallowed whole.The gates come first. Tall. Iron. Black metal etched with sigils I don’t recognize but somehow feel, like standing too close to a storm cloud. They open without a sound, sliding apart as if the ground itself knows Leon is coming home.I lay stiffly in his arms, one hand folded in my lap and the other around his neck for anchor, my body still buzzing with the aftershocks of terror and adrenaline. Marcus’s face flashes in my mind without warning, his grin, the way his hand had tightened around my wrist, the certainty in his voice when he thought no one would stop him.Leon had stopped him. Not with words. With instinct. With violence so sudden and brutal that my mind still can’t fully hold it.Leon walks forward, crunching softly over gravel, and then… I forget how to breathe.His house isn't a house. It’s a mansion. No… worse. Better. Older.It rises from the