Elaris POV
My first stop after he left was the bathroom. I felt maybe when the cold water touched my body, my mind would come alive, and I would understand all that just happened.
But that wasn't quite so. Because as I stood under the shower, the cold water blasting down on my naked body, I still could bring myself to understand what had just happened with Torren. Even if he felt something for me, felt that invisible pull of our bond, pulling him to know, how could he have been so outright with it? He could get to tell me so blatantly like that. And what the hell does he even mean that he wants me but that he hates me, and he would continue to hate me because he wants me?
No matter how hard I try to make sense of everything, I just couldn't. I don't even understand why I was so stupid earlier, so smitten by his words and touch, that I crave them.
