Chapter:- 36

The thought made Moni shudder. He couldn't think about her like that! She was broken, she was selfish and unworthy of that look in his eyes, the look that said she was the answer to every question he had ever asked. She would destroy him; she would drag him down and cause him nothing but misery and heartache and pain. Because that is what mates do to each other, she only had to look at those clave files to understand that she only had to think of her mother's bruises and broken bones, of the tears she had cried and the blood she had bled. She only had to think of her cold lifeless body to know what kind of destruction she would cause him.

So, she had to leave him before it was too late. Before he ended up just like her mother. She had to protect him from the monster that she would become. She couldn't let go! She tried, but her body refused to obey the instructions her brain was screaming at her, unwind your legs, untangle your hands from his hair, loosen his grip, climb down and walk