Rescued and Ruined by V.T. Bonds

Author:V.T. Bonds [Bonds, V.T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Raeni

He’s gone. He finally saw reason and left.

Shouldn’t I be rejoicing?

I pushed him away with all my might, too angry at having my choice taken away from me to look past my frustration. Now that he’s gone…

With nothing but an endless abyss hovering in my future, the past rears its head. The horrible moments I suffered before my gory knight in combat boots came rampaging to my rescue flood my mind. The memories make me shake and sweat, my fingers’ incessant plucking at my dilapidated nest doing nothing to soothe my torment.

Even the fading scent of my alpha savior within my sheets does nothing to temper the barrage of memories flashing through my thoughts. My body aches as though it relives the abuse—my cheek stings from a harsh slap, my scalp hurts from a brutal hand, and my stomach tightens as though it’s ready to expel what little remains within. When my gown sticks to me from the sweat pouring from my skin and my cocoon seems more like a prison than a haven, I rip the sheets off my head and scoot to the edge of the mattress.

Maybe if I face the real world, the past will slink away, except when I look at the tiny chair, all I imagine is a massive, teal brute overflowing it.

I tell myself I long for him solely because my body misses his comfort, but my soul shrieks in despair. It demands the safety he offered, even if my mind screams in denial, replaying how roughly he treated me.

Yet my core throbs in demand, even while the weird combination of arousal from his delicious pheromones and disgust from my memories confuses the hell out of me. When staring at the chair only makes my brain hurt, I push off the bed only to slide to the floor.

My veins buzz. The world swirls.

Even the cold floor wavers, dipping and rising as though to mock me.

The war between my head and my heart rages.

My body craves my alpha. When did I start thinking of him as mine?

I roll onto my stomach and push onto my elbows, staring at the wavering legs of the chair and table.

When he dumped the water in my face, I’d been livid. Now, with his stern expression embedded in my psyche, I shiver in delight as I remember his massive hands caring for me. Once I relaxed into his gigantic body, my pleasure knew no bounds.

And when he’d taken other liberties with my flesh, I’d found a euphoria I’d never known existed.

My muscles shake as I pull myself across the floor, the cold seeping into my front doing nothing to slow the spread of agitation in my blood. I reach the chair and pull myself up it, plopping my butt in the frigid seat and staring at the empty table.

Is this what I want out of life? To fight for every breath? To hurt and struggle? To be alone?

I splay my hands over the top of the wobbly table and suck down a pathetic breath.

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