Chapter 410

For a moment, I just wanted him back. Pain and all. Grief and all.

I wanted him.

But then I realized what was happening. This was wrong, and the fact that it felt good in the moment couldn’t change that. I couldn’t fall back into this old routine. I couldn’t let him manipulate me with the pleasant sensations of a bond that had never fully gone away. 4

Furthermore, as far as Gideon knew, I was a married woman.

I pressed my hands into his chest just as I heard the faint clink of his belt buckle. Then, I shoved him hard.

Gideon stumbled back a step, breathless, staring at me. His hair was a mess and his shirt was hanging open with half the buttons ripped off.

table, tucking my breast back

He didn’t move immediately.

chest clench painfully with the effort

you because of the poison.” I reached down and picked up my shirt from the floor. “That’s it. That’s the only reason any of that happened, and you knew I was impaired and you let it go that far anyway, so you had better hope that Sebastian doesn’t

pulled my shirt on over my head and

the same time

started. So it was just

and refused to comment on that. He held my gaze for one more second, then turned

behind him with a slam that rattled the

I turned to take in the wreckage. One of my beakers was on the floor in pieces. My notes were crumpled. The

because I’d pricked my finger on that damn plant and made a fool out

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