Page 73 of Axon's Anguish

Now I was lying here in one of the unoccupied caves glowing, fully aroused, and completely alone.

My only solace was knowing that Rhaz would be equally as aroused and equally as frustrated by it. Serves him right. He could have at least spoken to me about our predicament. I was a logical woman. I would have been happy to work out a deal of some kind for us to ease each other’s needs. The mere idea of being touched by those calloused hands of his sent another shock wave of arousal coursing through my body. Damn him.

After tonight we’d have another month to get this sorted out. Surely he couldn’t avoid me for an entire month. We would have a conversation about our luminescence, whether he liked it or not.

Rhaz

This was the last thing I’d wanted. I’d purposely kept myself apart from the female who pulled on my heart for these past five moon cycles. We could not be mates. I refused to let her bind herself to me. I would not weigh her down with my burdens, my demons. And above all, I would not give her a child that wouldhave the same cursed blood running through their veins that ran through mine.

Monsters ran in my family long before I first shifted. I had fought against those inner demons, but the ever-present rage that I carried was proof enough that I’d been unsuccessful.

I would not hurt her like my father hurt my mother. I would not let Beatrice, the most beautiful, precious, perfect female in this entire galaxy be mated to me. Not as long as there was a chance I would turn out like him.

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