Bitten Once. Desired Forever의 모든 챕터: 챕터 1 - 챕터 4

The candlelight flickered against the grand hall walls, casting long shadows that hid me perfectly. I pressed myself behind the velvet curtains, my breath shallow, my pulse hammering in my ears. I hadn’t meant to overhear them, not like this but the moment I heard Calder’s voice, soft and intimate, I froze.“…she’s so naïve,” he murmured, and my chest twisted. His words were meant for Lysentha, my stepsister, but they felt like a blade sliding through me. “She trusts me. Too much. She’ll never see it coming.”Lysentha’s laugh floated over to me, smooth, silk-wrapped venom. “And you’ll make sure she doesn’t. Don’t worry… I’ll take care of the rest.”I pressed my hands against my mouth to keep from crying out. My body felt like it was betraying me hot, trembling, every nerve screaming. The words weren’t just betrayal; they were intimate. Flirtatious. Wrong. Calder’s hand had brushed hers as he spoke, and I could almost feel it from here, a phantom touch that made my stomach twist with h

The abandoned lodge reeked of dust and rot, but the shadows were mine. I huddled in the corner, soaked from rain and trembling, not just from the cold, but from everything that had come before. Betrayal, humiliation, exile… it weighed on me like iron. And yet, there was something else, something that refused to be silenced: the pull. The hunger. The bite that burned on my shoulder like fire.I pressed my hands to it, fingertips brushing the faintly glowing mark. My body flared at the touch, heat pooling in places I shouldn’t have felt it, muscles tensing, nerves alight. A growl rose from somewhere deep inside me.I shivered and pulled back. “No,” I whispered, trembling. “I won’t… I can’t…”But my body didn’t listen. The shadows in the lodge seemed to curl toward me, stretching, bending, alive. My reflection in the broken window caught me off guard, just for a second, the face staring back wasn’t entirely human. The eyes glimmered with a golden sheen, the outline of fangs flashed, and