Chapter 32

AVERY

His eyes, wide and round stare back at me while his hand gestures at me to do something. I can’t make sense of it. I think he wants me closer, or maybe, he wants me gone.

“ Don’t. ” I murmur, again and again and again but they pay no heed to it.

My words mean nothing to them tonight. When I try to get them off with my hands, a push sends me flying in the air.

The world spins as the window becomes smaller in my view. When I finally hit the floor, something cracks, and choked screams erupt from my mouth.

A sharp breath, and then nothing but an endless abyss of pain.

I gasp, my eyes shooting open to meet the familiar black pants and a muscular thigh. For a few moments, I blink and breathe deeply to regain my senses.

My trembling fingers touch the side of my head. When nothing wet touches them, I swallow and sit up, only to have a hand weave into my hair and pull my head back.

“ Was it sweet? ” The pair of grey eyes, intense and piercing, stare back at me.

“ Huh? ” I blink again.

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