Chapter 53

ADRIANA

My heart is beating in overdrive. Like a wolf running carelessly in the night, the breeze and trees only a blur in their vision. Hearing and feeling absolutely nothing but the hard thud of their paws hitting the earth. I felt like that, the adrenaline pumping through my blood.

It was weirdly funny how I found this anything but terrifying was the main issue.

Xander was still above me, his mouth and mine not even a hair's breadth away. I kept my eyes tightly shut, knowing I could do nothing but that. His warm breath fans my face and he is as still as I am, though we were like that for two entirely different reasons.

I shouldn't feel this, he literally just said he wanted to have my fear, he wanted me to be scared of him. It's what I've always felt my whole life and I should want something different. I wanted something different. But with him this close to me and saying stuff like that, he is making me want to forget whatever my dream