We stood in the room, his eyes on mine as a deep guttural groan escaped his lips and his hands tightened around me.

But just like I knew that I wasn't ready to forgive him, so did he and though I loved being in his company for reasons I couldn't understand myself, I couldn’t see a future with a man who caused me that amount of pain- not yet.

Darian looked past me, his lips pulled back in a smile and his eyes lit up, the earlier dark lust and the urge to swallow me whole were ...