Chapter 24

SERAPHINA

I felt like dirt.

I felt like sin that needed to be cleansed.

I felt used like a thing that needed to be discarded.

The moment Leone left, the air in the room felt heavier. My skin burned where his eyes had been. My body still remembered the way he had looked at me, the way he had made me lose control.

I hated it. I hated that somewhere deep inside, I had liked it. I liked his dark, dominating way of punishing me whilst using my body to his satisfaction. I ...