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We just met. She does not know me yet. But every time, she holds my gaze.

Warmth, that has nothing to do with lust and everything to do with affection fills my chest.

“Mea Unica.”

My Only—my Nix—slowly lifts her hand to her face.

Our heartbeat quickens.

She keeps watching me watching her.

And then she drags her palm across her mouth.

My cock throbs. Leaks. Because she’s…

She…

A pulse of gravito, stronger than any before, shakes the room.

The wooden bed frame groans. Starts to crack.

And I can feel it. I can feel the darkness as it seeps from my eyes.

Nix drops her hand, revealing the blood staining her lips.

And I release my grip.

Chapter 28

Nix

My butt drops to the mattress, and I bounce slightly. But I can’t pull my attention away from Volik’s face.

Tendrils of midnight leak from his eyes, slithering beneath his skin.

I’ve never seen this.

Never heard of this.

The blackness seeps into his cheeks. Looking like a living thing, a living shadow.

The room vibrates.

My knees fall open.

And quicker than my brain can follow, Volik moves over me. His wide body spreads my thighs farther, his hands pressing into the mattress next to my head.

Mint fills my lungs, and I feel… hungry.

So hungry and so empty I almost cry from need.

Something heavy and warm presses against my stomach. And it’s… large.

It’s so large.

There’s nothing left between us.

His skin is so hot.