TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING
Then my wrists where the silk left its marks.
Hard enough that the skin goes pink, then red, and the friction feels cleaner than the water, feels like progress, feels like if I press hard enough I can reach the layer under where it's still just me.
The scrubbing gets harder.
My nails replace the cloth, raking across my forearm, going back to the same spot, and the skin splits and the sting is sharp and clean and honest and I go back again—
Knox's hands close around both of mine.
He pulls them away from my skin gently, firmly, and holds them still, and I fight him for a second, pulling, because the scrubbing was doing something the soap couldn't and I need it, I NEED—