40: MELT IN HIS EMBRACE

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Dear reader, before you go ahead to read this chapter, please look for the song SWEET HEAT LIGHTNING by GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV, listen to it while reading this chapter, the song inspired the creation of this and also enhances your reading experience. ily.

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Zara lay beneath him, her body trembling, her mind caught in a storm of agony and betrayal. The love bind spell was working its dark magic, twisting her emotions into something unrecognizable, something unbearable. She wanted to resist, to fight him off, to scream that she would never be his. But she couldn't. The spell had dug too deep, infecting her soul like a poison. 

Alaric hovered above her, his piercing eyes watching her with a mixture of triumph and hunger. He brushed a strand of hair from her damp forehead, his touch slow and deliberate. There was no tenderness in it—only the satisfaction of a man who had conquered what he believed to be his.