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My body my biggest enemy.

I need to run...

“Henri...” My voice caught on tears. Tears I would never shed in his company. Tears that threatened to river. “Let me go. Please...please let me go.”

Slowly, he reared back.

His lust-glazed eyes met mine.

He went to kiss me with awe and affection, but...whatever he saw made him trip backward, disengage, and shove me far, far away from him.

Chapter Sixteen

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Henri

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JESUS CHRIST, WHAT DID I JUST DO?

What the fuck did I do?

She stood there.

Wide-eyed, white-shocked, my cum oozing down her inner thigh.

She told me to stop.

Putain, how long had she been begging me to stop?

How had I not heard her?

How had I lost myself so completely?

I tripped back another step.

Echoes of my orgasm butchered me. Memories of her body fisting my cock mocked me.

I-I kissed her.

Fucking hell, why did I kiss her?

I’d ruined everything.

Every goddamn thing I’d turned my back on.

Every monstrous thing I’d become.

My past and present tangled and tore, leaving me in a wasteland of feelings and guilt.

Such motherfucking guilt.

My lips stung from her taste. My tongue burned from her blood.

The moment I’d taken her mouth, I’d broken.

I’d forgotten all her promises to hate me.