Chapter 53

Melissa

I couldn’t control it. The way my heart continued to pound hardly in my chest was difficult to control after hearing Alan say those simple words to me. Seeing the look in his eyes and knowing that he meant every word, it was difficult to control the pounding of my fragile heart. I had a lot of reasons to say no to him; one being that we weren’t alone in the house and even though the servants usually had no reason to come the stairs, we were still not alone in the house. Two, being that we lived together and that our parents and Freya might return at any time. Three, being that it was just plain wrong. It was wrong to have sex or make love with him even though we were mates. He was my stepbrother and our parents trusted us enough not to have any suspicions about us. I had so many reasons to turn my back away from him.

But I held his shirt and pulled him closer instead, moving him close to the window to bring down the curtain. When the room was now dimly lit with just the light