Total pages in book: 30
Estimated words: 26760 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 134(@200wpm)___ 107(@250wpm)___ 89(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 26760 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 134(@200wpm)___ 107(@250wpm)___ 89(@300wpm)
I could see a flicker of something—maybe adoration—that I didn’t understand.
“Even now, you're breathtakingly beautiful."
I had no time to react. He leaned in, his tongue darting out to catch a salty trail of my tears. The sensation was both intimate and terrifying. The intimacy of the gesture felt like a violation. He pulled back slightly, his eyes holding a dark promise. “This is the first and last time you cry over another man,” he declared softly. “Starting tomorrow, your new life begins.”
The words hit me hard.
I was trapped in a world I didn't understand, bound to a man whose capacity for cruelty seemed limitless. My life, my choices, were no longer my own. I was now irrevocably entwined with Aidoneus Maelstrom, and nothing would ever be the same