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SHADOW

What Zarah told me had been bugging me all the way back to the compound. Nothing happened back there that she hadn’t predicted. She was a witch, after all. Either she was trying to manipulate me or telling the truth, but nothing could stop me from saving these people or the one I loved, even if it meant giving up my life.

And here I was, giving everything I could offer to Califf because he was the only thing that mattered to me— the half of my soul that completed me.

Standing naked before me was the hottest fucking man with a body of a god, a cock so big, long, and rigid, proudly erect between his thighs. How could I take him all in? I knew it would hurt the first time, but it was all worth the pain. I was his to give what he desired, and he was mine to make me feel good.

He met me in the eye with his burning gaze.

I didn’t know where I got all the confidence in me tonight. I came in the middle as he prowled and crawled into the bed. I wrapped my arms around his neck, stra