Grey's POV It didn't matter that I stayed outside her apartment for another night. The guilt that remained continued well into the next day. Looking over a new case that came upon my desk early this morning, I couldn't help but reread the first sentence in repetition with my distracted thoughts. My
Elodie's POV I had every intention of walking into the day completely exiling myself from Grey Alluna. It didn't mean I kept from noticing his current visitor and the way he tensed as if the person was Lucifer himself. I'd never seen that look in his eyes before as he straightened from behind his d
"You have a choice. One of three...You can claim your pretty little Moonwhore until she's truly yours. Let one of us...Or win. What's a few more bodies on your already crimson conscience?" He looked to the floor between us, not quite able to meet my eyes as I was desperate for him to see mine. "He
Grey's POV No stranger to blood or this lifestyle I ultimately feared would be my dying destiny, I was soothed by a presence I detested. All because I didn't want her here. While the pain of the metal rod remained embedded in my shoulder, eating away my unnatural strength until I was more human tha
"They call it 'The Ropes'. It's a test to see who is strong and who isn't. Sometimes Aslan rigs it to train them and other times it's to win." "So why would you come back? I saw it on your face when you left with him that you didn't want to go." "You followed me here?" I shouldn't have been surpr
"What if I preferred the death you'd give me to theirs?" "You're saying this because of-" She silenced me with a finger to my lips, dropping it before I could continue before her interruption. "I'd like to think I make my own destiny, Grey." I hardened at the way she spoke my name as if kissing e
Elodie's POVFor the next few weeks, things became easier. The events of the intruders and the makeshift fight club faded as our connection grew. But it was also a few weeks since we shared anything remotely romantic. Flirtations came in abundance as I watched him throughout his day, but nothing cam
"Grey...""Something to think about..." He unlatched my stockings until they were a pile on the floorboard, next reaching for the edge of my panties. "Shoulders..." I wanted to shy away but I couldn't with how hungrily he looked at me. I licked my lips as I issued my ankles to either of his shoulde