Chapter 22: Fatal Attraction

OIL and fire. That was what we are. One look, one touch, and we burn. And both of us knew that. I didn’t have to look at my reflection to see that the heat in Alexander’s eyes mirrored mine. I was not going to deny it anymore.

I was attracted to this man.

And this attraction we feel for each other was a fatal sin. Every day since I realize that, I live with this terrible guilt inside me. My body, my heart, my mind, and my wolf were constantly colliding with each other and yet, when Alexander and I were this close to each other that I could smell his minty breath, a part of me was telling me that this was the most natural thing to do.

This electricity, this spark, this thing that I used to read in romance books were real. And only the city’s number one enemy could make me feel them. I would have never found out that those feelings exist if I didn’t meet Alexander.

He makes me question things. My beliefs. And even my own feelings.

He was like a switch. He was hard to understand. Someti