Broken Souls (Book of Shadows)

Fifty-Two

Fifty-Two

HIM

My claim is back on her body.

I want to trace my fingers over it as I crawl onto the bed and pull her into my arms, but I don’t want to irritate her skin. My blood chills at the memory of finding her in a pool of blood, her pussy cut up, and a knife held to her wrist. I remember all the pain that hit me when I found out what she had doneand why.

I swallow hard.

Her little hands come up to grip my forearm. She doesn’t say anything, and I wish I could feel what she’s feeling, but the blood bond still hasn’t snapped into place for me. Now that she knows I didn’t fuck Khalid’s girl, she still owes her payment for us to complete it.

Where we are in our relationship though, I don’t think we’d survive it. So I won’t push for it yet. I’ll just need to trust her at her word that she won’t hurt me like that again. It is a terrifying feeling to give that much of myself to