Chasing Scarlett: A Breeder Romance
“What exactly do you want, Riordan? I don’t believe you’ve come here only to irritate me.”
A retort rests on the tip of my tongue, but I discard it when she starts to walk away. “Use me.”
Scarlett halts, her shoulders tensing as she turns to look at me. “What?”
I close the distance between us and she stills when I raise a hand to her heart, letting my palm rest over my mark on her. “I get awoken at night by your anger. Your pain. Your fear.” Something in me cracks as I gaze down at her. So small. So fragile. It doesn’t matter that in a few years, her blood will stop bleeding red, turning into a mix of ichor and black. She wasn’t born like us. She’ll always have her fragile human heart. She’l