His fake wife, their real obsession
They were towering, wealthy, and radiated ghosts from a past life I thought I'd left behind.
"I must be losing my mind," I slurred, a hysterical laugh escaping my lips as I shook my head. "You're not real. I'm fucking hallucinating."
"Does this feel like a hallucination?" another voice murmured low, dark, and predatory. A large, warm hand, heavily tattooed at the wrist, slid firmly onto the small of my waist, gripping me through the fabric of my dress.
I didn't care if it was a dream. I was hollowed out, broken, and desperate to erase Julian's mocking smirk from my mind.