Chapter 122

Damon

I had waited for the perfect time for her to be ready.

Not just physically. Not just wet and whimpering and begging to be filled. I’m talking ready… body, mind, soul.

Because trust me when I say this… I am a very rough Alpha. I’m not the kind of man who makes love with candlelight and soft hands. I’m not gentle. I don’t take it slow. I destroy. I break. I breed. I dominate until she forgets her own name and screams mine like it’s the only word she’s ever known.

But because of her age.

Because she’s just eighteen.

Because she’s still learning the weight of what she is.

I have been trying. Really fucking trying.

I’ve held myself back in ways no one will ever understand. Every time I sank into her, every time I tied her hands, pulled her hair, fucked her until she passed out from overstimulation… that was me being gentle.

That was the tame version. I know it didn’t feel like it to her. I know she thought that was the be