Semua Bab ONCE A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE LUNA NOW THE DEMON ALPHA'S BRIDE: Bab 71 - Bab 79

“I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT I AM ALWAYS HERE FOR YOU WITH OPEN ARMS, OPEN HEART AND OPEN LEGS”STELLAHis mouth claimed mine under the falling water, and everything else disappeared.The kiss was not careful this time. It was hungry, almost desperate, like Damien was trying to pour every fractured piece of himself into me. Water streamed over our faces, between our lips, making the kiss slippery and urgent. I tasted the faint metallic edge of blood that still clung to his skin, mixed with the clean heat of his mouth. His hand at my waist tightened, pulling me flush against him so that every hard plane of his bare chest pressed into my soaked clothes.I should have been afraid of the darkness still lingering in his eyes. I should have demanded answers about the blood. Instead I opened for him, letting his tongue slide against mine, and felt the tension in his body slowly begin to shift—still coiled, still dangerous, but focused now on me. His free hand slid up my side, pushing the wet f

STELLA.I stared at him. I couldn't breathe. I couldn't even think. My mind felt like it had stopped working entirely, stuck on the same handful of words looping without end.It would be you.The words kept repeating in my head, over and over, refusing to settle into anything I could make sense of. Damien was still looking at me as though he hadn't just turned my entire world upside down, as though this were an ordinary conversation and not something that could unravel everything I thought I understood about my life."What?"His expression didn't change. "I want to marry you."My eyes widened. He said it so simply, as though he had told me he wanted breakfast. As though those words weren't impossible. As though he hadn't just asked me to become his wife."Marry me?""Yes."I stared at him, my mind scrambling to catch up. Did he know what he was saying? An Alpha couldn't marry a maid. It wasn't simply frowned upon. It was forbidden. And even if that rule somehow didn't exist, there was

STELLAThe words hung between us in the steam-filled bathroom, heavier than the towel still hanging forgotten from my hand.“Ride me, darling.”My pulse thundered in my ears. Damien’s forehead still rested against mine, his breath warm, his body solid and wet against me. The offer he had just made cuffs, restraint, complete surrender of control—should have terrified me. Instead it sent a slow, molten heat rolling through my stomach and lower, until I felt myself grow wetter just from the thought.He was offering to make himself helpless. For me. So I could feel safe. So Azrath could never reach me even if the demon tried to surface.I nodded once, unable to trust my voice.Damien’s eyes darkened with something that looked almost like relief mixed with hunger. He took the towel from my hands, dried me carefully—shoulders, arms, the curve of my breasts, the soft skin of my stomach—then dried himself with the same quiet efficiency. When he was done he lifted me without effort, carrying m

STELLAI had never dressed so quickly in my life."Damien, stop laughing!"He was sitting against the headboard, completely relaxed, watching me struggle with my clothes as though my panic was the most entertaining thing he'd seen all week."I'm not laughing.""You are."His shoulders shook, betraying him completely. I grabbed a pillow and threw it at him. He caught it effortlessly, without even sitting up properly."You're impossible.""You're the one panicking.""The Shaman is downstairs!""He has been gone for a month, Stella. I doubt the first thing on his mind is what we were doing."My face burned. "That is not helping."He laughed again, the sound filling the room while I glared at him before finally fixing my clothes properly. When I looked at him again, he was still smiling."Keep laughing.""I will."I grabbed another pillow."All right. All right." He held up his hands in surrender, though the smile never left his face.I shook my head and hurried toward the door. Then I st