Chapter Twenty-Two

Serenity

~“Don’t look away.”~

~“Don’t look away.”~

My body was still buzzing with his presence. I felt him everywhere, tasted even more.

But the man I was looking at…

I wanted to look away from.

Because I saw death in his eyes.

I also saw life.

I saw things he shouldn’t have been.

I saw things that were impossible to see.

I saw my own shame. I saw my faults. I saw everything that made me a bad vampire, a bad person. I saw histories and deaths. I saw diseases, destruction. I saw war.

Trust. I needed to trust Cassius.

But I had a bad feeling that I hadn’t just mated with Mason.

But a fallen.