Chapter 109

• Rose’s POV
• The look in his eyes when I spoke those words was unlike anything I had ever seen before. It was primal—hungry. Like a beast staring down its favorite prey, only in this case, I was the prey. And yet instead of fear, all I felt was heat curling in the pit of my stomach.
• “You do not mean that,” he said, his voice strained, rough around the edges. But the way his eyes locked on mine betrayed him—he was desperate for me to contradict him, to give him the excuse he needed to finally lose control.