Chapter 119

• EXHAUSTING SUBJECT
• "Hey! I said it was nothing. You are my sweet perfection, Ellie. You haven't done anything wrong," Damian insists, his gaze unwavering as he speaks.
• "But there is a reason why you reacted like this, right? You know this night will go to waste if you don't open up because there is no way I'm going to let you touch me like this," I warn, my voice laced with a hint of frustration. Every fiber of my being yearns to understand what's troubling Damian, to share in his burdens just as he's shared in mine countless times before.