SELENA I couldn’t wait.The second he gave me the “last chance to walk away,” something feral and broken took over. I reached for his belt with shaking hands, trying to pull him closer, trying to get more of his mouth, more of his weight, more of anything that would stop the aching emptiness inside me.Kael caught both my wrists in one hand and pinned them against the wall above my head.“No.”The single word was calm. Absolute.I made a desperate sound and tried to twist free. “Please… Kael, I can’t.”“You can.” His other hand slid down my bare side, slow and deliberate, stopping at the waistband of the thin hospital underwear. He didn’t push inside. He just rested his fingers there, close enough that I felt the heat of them. “You’re going to learn patience if it kills you.”I was already half-crying again from pure frustration. My body felt too hot, too sensitive, too empty. The pregnancy hormones, the fear, the public ruin, the way he had claimed me in front of everyone, it had
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