Chapter 45

As she supported herself against him, tears ran down her beautiful face, and she completely forgot that she was naked. She snorted and shouted, "It's that vile Gregory!" She exclaimed while wrinkling her nose, " he tried to rape me in the library." Martin was taken aback. How could they be so cruel to her? They couldn't notice what a lovely, delicate creature she was? "You're safe now," he promised as he brushed away her tears. "No one knows about this place." As she looked up at him, a glimmer of hope in her eyes. He'd never harmed her before. He was the only one who talked to her as if she was a person. As she started to relax, she held on to him even more tightly than before. He tried to reassure and calm her by running his fingertips down her back and along the small of her spine. Instead, it reawakened the simmering yearning in her that she had repressed for such a long time. Gregory was correct; she yearned to be caressed and loved. She stroked Martin's cheek and gazed into hi