Aftermath

NALEDI’S POV

I felt ashamed of myself.

As I looked into the mirror, staring at the two dotted lines that were permanently etched into my skin. Caellum’s mark.

It’s been three days since my heat wave. I had not left my room since that dreaded day. The day I let everything go wrong. I made him do it. I betrayed my family. I took the mark of their killer’s son and there was no going back from it.

I remember the feeling of him sinking his fangs into me. The lock that clicked in place between us. The sober expression I held when I realised what I had done.

When I realised how weak I had been, how I had lost to the monster heat and let it achieve its purpose. How Caellum had been right, and I wrong. Wrong to have allowed it happen.

Wrong to have exploited the soft heart I knew he had towards me. And most definitely wrong to have turned immediately after, detached from him and let him fuck me while knowing that I regretted what he had done.