Chapter 116

• “You are smart, and beautiful, and exceptionally strong for an hybrid. Everyone loves you Ari. In the time that you worked in my office, my workers will rather come to you than come to me. I didn’t want to get
• attached to you, especially because I knew I had only a few months left. What was the point of getting attached?” He raked his hands through his hair for the umpteenth time. “But then, you took in for me, carried my seed, and with that came hope. Hope for me, and a possibility of living,” “What do you mean?” I asked skeptically. He crossed the gap between us again and snatched my hands in his. I tried to pull them back, but he placed it roughly on his right thigh.
• “Feel my thighs Aria. I used to have a scar right there. It served as a reminder of the curse placed on me by Lucinda. I had to carry that scar everyday for more than two years until you came along,” he explained.