All Chapters of FORBIDDEN ATTRACTIONS; DANGEROUS SECRETS: Chapter 71 - Chapter 78

RYEI smiled as the first rays of sunlight kissed my eyes this morning, stretching, with them still shut, against my pillow.It's been years since I've had such decent sleep. And I have the fiery silver head that spent the night curled up against me like a koala to thank for getting it last night. Sure, she had snuck out this morning - if you can even call it that - at the first crack of dawn; smelling a lot like fear and regret.There is something ridiculously special about that girl, and I have every intention if finding it out. I definitely do feel a tinge of regret for taking her virginity in that way, but it couldn't be helped. I didn't want her tied to me in ways that would restrict her freedom.My lounging is interrupted by the shrill ringing of my phone, and I groan. Who could it be this early in the morning?I roll over to grab the phone from the nightstand. "Father?""Lyrik. What the hell are you doing?" He thinders from the other end of the line."What do you think? I was

I would go through everything in this world to get a fee of those good moments with Danil again. The moments when he held me in his arms and whispered comforting reassurances to me, the moments when he was both a friend and leader. So scary and capable and..."How much of a masochist am I?" I grumble out loud, my voice sounding tired and angry all at once."You love him, that doesn't make you a masochist." Hannah walks into the kitchen with a tray in hand and a look of understanding on her face."He doesnt deserve my love. He is a traitorous bastard." My declaration has another slice of red hot pain racing along my spine."You don't know that for sure, Xhelixia. For all we know he is just as much a victim as you are.""I saw them." I close my eyes against the tears that are already threatening to make an appearance, the visual of Danil smiling up at Hera flashing before my mind's eye. "I saw it all myself."Hannah walks over to me after putting the tray down on the counter top, then t

XHELIXIA Two weeks and a shit ton of exhaustion later, I can proudly say that I've learnt a lot from the sessions with Hannah. This was going a lot better than I expected it to.Not only was my defense becoming a lot stronger and indomitable, but my camouflage technique was genius, and I had succeeded in launching crazy strong attacks on Hannah after she tried to penetrate the shield in my mind.My body screamed its protest as I held stronger onto Hannah, both of us poised and ready for another bout of training.Yes, my successes were truly exhilarating, but my body was no match for the level of mental exhaustion I've been shoved under day after day."They won't relent because you're tired. Of anything, they would take advantage of that and destroy you from the inside out." Hannah's voice stays firm as she spits out the words. "If you can't defend yourself in a moment of weakness, you can't defend yourself at all."I know she's right, but I would still give all of my organs on a spic

DANILSomething is wrong. Something is seriously and irrevocably wrong, I could feel it.My head pounds with the weight of a million marching ants, all of them with a single mission - to eat my brains up an spit up what's left of it like a piece of chewed up gum.There's a name I've been seriously trying to remember. Somebody who should be very special to me but whose presence is ridiculously off, and whose essence keeps eluding me like a skilled thief.I groan, tapping the side of my head in frustration as bits and pieces of a memory keep dancing along the edge of my mind, not fully reaching it, but present enough to make me suffer from not having a full grasp of it.A knock sounds at my door, and I snap my head in its direction. "Who's there?""It's Silas, Alpha." The voice of my second in command comes back through the door without a single pause, as though he were waiting for me to ask that question.Something seems off about the way he relates with me these days, almost like he's