Her phrases took me aback so intensely, I couldn’t type the fitting response. Deciding to depart, I began climbing away from bed.

Lucia was on me right away. She grabbed onto my arm and pulled me again on the mattress.

“Don’t depart,” she mentioned in a tone that was a mixture of damage and apprehension.

“I’m drained,” I mentioned.

“You possibly can sleep right here,” she mentioned, scooting away. “This mattress is just too huge for me anyway.” Putting a pillow beside hers, she patted it in form.

I lay subsequent to her, questioning if this wasalla dream, that I’d jerk awake anytime.

She pulled the covers over us and slid in beside me. Her gentle, bare physique pressed into my aspect as she flung an arm over my chest.

What the hell was she doing treating me like a fucking teddy bear?

By the point, I rotated to face her, she’d closed her eyes and was snoozing softly.

Reaching out, I moved away a couple of strands of hair from her face and watched her. A fierce want to guard her rose inside me.

There was no method I may ignore the feelings swirling inside me. It didn’t matter who I needed to kill subsequent to maintain her at my aspect. She wasmine.

31

Lucia

Being underneath the blanket with Yakim was like sleeping inside an oven. I obtained so heat, my eyes blearily blinked open the second I rolled away too far, my leg stretching past the sheet. The chilly draft taking part in on my naked pores and skin was sufficient to wake me up.

Muttering sleepily, I used to be about to scoot nearer to Yakim when an odd feeling crept down my backbone. My gaze scanned the room, questioning what attracted my consideration.

“Oh my—” I cried out, leaping to sit down up the second my gaze fell on a darkish silhouette of a person seated on a close-by sofa.

Yakim stirred. “What’s incorrect?” he requested in a tough voice.

“There’s…there’s somebody watching us,” I blurted, pointing towards the person within the shadows who didn’t transfer an inch. For a second, I questioned whether or not my sleepy thoughts was imagining issues.

Yakim flipped on a number of switches, bathing the room in vibrant gentle.

A pant escaped me the second I stared on the man earlier than me. He was fully drenched from head to foot in…blood.

“Why are you creeping on us?” Yakim growled.

“I used to be bored,” mentioned Leon with a shrug.

I stared between them. Neither acknowledged Leon’s grotesque look.

“Are you damage?” I requested, attempting to grasp why Yakim wasn’t reacting to his brother who was soaked in blood.

“Calm down,” Yakim mentioned in a deep, cool tone. “It’s not his blood.”

“Then, whose…?” My query died on my lips. The reminiscence of these three males within the dungeons, hanging from chains and bleeding out, rose in my thoughts. Trying towards Leon, I requested, “Are they lifeless?”

“Yeah,” he mentioned casually. “Their sluggish deaths higher get the message to the bastards planning to show towards us sooner or later.”

“You have to be having a shower,” mentioned Yakim, operating fingers by way of his darkish hair. “That sofa’s most likely ruined.”

The white leather-based sofa already had smears of crimson throughout it.

“I didn’t comprehend it was white,” Leon muttered. “It was kinda darkish in right here.”

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