VIKTOR
The kiss started as a concession, a desperate attempt to quiet the storm raging in Kairen's eyes, but the moment our lips met, something inside me shattered.
I tried to slow down. Tried to breathe. Tried to remember every reason why I'd sworn never to cross this line... but his body moved again, and every rational thought detonated.
I felt something inside me give way, like a dam finally breaking after too many storms.
I'd spent months, building walls around this pull toward him, naming it duty, protection, anything but what it really was. Desire. Raw, unrelenting want.
I liked him, more than that, I craved him in ways that twisted my gut and crumbled my resolve every time he brushed past me.
I d tried to bury it, to be the unyielding guard he needed, but it only festered, growing sharper, hungrier. And now, with his mouth soft and yielding under mine, I couldn't stop. Wouldn't.
