~NiklausThe door shut with a final, echoing click, sealing her inside.I stood in the dimly lit hallway, my hand still resting on the cold handle. My knuckles were white, my grip so tight the metal dug painfully into my palm.Inside the room, the raw, furious venom in her voice still hung in the air. I hate you, Niklaus.I closed my eyes, letting out a slow, ragged breath through my nose. Every single instinct screamed at me to turn the handle, step back inside, and lock the door behind me. I wanted to pin her against the mattress until that defiance melted into something entirely unravellable, until she forgot every single lesson in restraint she had ever tried to teach herself.When she had stood on her tiptoes, eyes closed, offering her mouth to mine... the force of the urge to crush her against me had almost broken my jaw from clenching it so hard. Pulling away had taken every last drop of willpower I possessed.My pulse hammered against my ribs, heavy and erratic, a rare, inf
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