Chapter 453

For over twenty years, this was the first time she had ever felt this way. It was as if she had melted into another being entirely—someone so different from herself, yet now inseparable. She was in him, and he was in her. But a sliver of rationality still flickered in her mind. Struggling to prop herself up, she carefully avoided putting weight on Aiden’s injured body, putting just the slightest distance between them. Breathing unevenly, she murmured, "Stop... you're still hurt..." Yet her dazed eyes met his—deep, fathomless pools of darkness that seemed to swallow her whole. Within those depths, embers of desire smoldered, spreading like wildfire, rising hotter with every second. His voice was rough, almost hoarse. "Willow, my body isn’t that fragile. But my heart is—right now, it’s weak. I need to know if what you said before was real." What she said before? Willow remembered—the last words she had left him with before parting in the capital. *"Aiden, I like you. Will you be my boyfr