Kissed My Ex's Brother
“I’m here. No one’s going to touch you. Breathe, baby… just breathe.”
She clutched my shirt like it was a lifeline, her body shaking with silent sobs. I kept murmuring soothing words, rubbing her back gently, trying to calm the storm inside her.
For a few moments, everything else disappeared — the fight, the broken glass, the danger. Only Lila mattered.
Elena stood nearby, watching with worried eyes while Adrian checked the rest of the floor.
I thought it was over.
I was wrong.
A sharp, blinding pain exploded across my back — right over the still-healing whip marks. Someone had stabbed or slashed me from behind. I staggered forward with a low grunt, pain shooting through my entire body like