Chapter 215.5 - Finally
"But you can't."
The heat surging through her body, the high of his blood still in her veins, the satisfaction of finally being seen—everything halted.
She stilled, body tense, her breath caught somewhere between a snarl and a whimper.
"Why?"
The single word was sharper than it should have been, edged with something violent, something furious.
Why?
Why couldn't she?
She had waited.
Suffered.
Starved.
And still, still, she was being told she couldn't.
Why?
Why?!
Her nails dug into the fabric of his uniform, frustration curling inside her like a storm, dark and volatile. She had seen it. All of it.