Chapter 20. Blood

The Thing POV

"Yes, she has..." Soren replies, still irritated, putting his arm around my waist. "I can feel her emotions, even if she doesn't show them physically. Since we haven't had sex yet, I can't read her thoughts, but I can feel them... Sometimes, when they're stronger, I can hear a whisper."

Ishtar raises her eyebrows at me, assessing whether Soren's words are real.

'Interesting.' I thought, "So that means Klaus was only able to read my thoughts because we had sex.

Something I won't be able to deny when Soren wants to have sex with me, which saddens me, knowing that not even my mind will be mine alone. Maybe now is the time for me to perform the rejection ritual, so he can't manipulate the link against me.

"She wants to reject you," Ishtar says, and Soren tightens his grip on my waist a little more.

"She was a slave..." Victor speaks before Soren can. "As far as I understand it, Klaus was an asshole, he got her hopes up by saying he was g