Chapter 31

RAE

How could I fall for that? Why had I let him touch me?

I couldn’t stop scrubbing my skin. Rhys’ touch had branded me, and I could still feel him between my legs. My body still hummed and was overheated. Whatever he had done had awoken something terrifying in me. The anger was still there, but so was the hunger. I’d truly lost my mind.

But I’d be damned if I let him touch me again.

How could he just walk out like that? How could he look at me as if I was disgusting after he’d done that to me?

His words flittered over and over in my mind. I was nothing, and he wanted me to remember that. My chest squeezed even when I knew his hatred was irrational. He was the one who’d rolled up into my life and knocked everything sideways.

I stopped scrubbing when I realised my skin was raw and bleeding. It matched the handprints Rhys had left on my wrists and thigh. My neck was marked, too. Again, my core clenched. After all these years with my head straight, why had it turned like that? He wasn’