Chapter 74. Something in Between

Venus POV

I woke up alone in Rhys’s room with no idea where he was. It was the last day of the Peace Week celebrations, and the sun was up. After our late-night confessions, we had run out of words and fallen asleep in each other’s arms.

He had neither rejected nor accepted me as his mate. It should have meant that he was pondering it. I had not expected him to be overjoyed by the news, yet the silence was worse.

I wanted to look for him and demand a reply. He owed it to me after admitting that I had been a guinea pig for his dick experiment. Regardless of the fact that I would never tell anyone about his former ‘condition’, it wasn’t fair that I could accept it, and he couldn’t accept me as his mate.

Still, I could not believe that I was the first woman he had fucked. Rhys was mouthwatering sexy to look at, an eff