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There is only us and our pleasure.

Our bodies and this needy dance.

I won't be able to stop even after the orgasm.

“Odin . . ."

"Yes, let me see all of you, Elina."

We are both lost, mad with desire within our own world.

Finally, when the urgency becomes unbearable, we surrender into each other's arms.

Odin

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

I lookat the Greek goddess sleeping in my bed.

She hasn’t covered herself. Elina shows no inhibitions with me. She lets me look at her without any shame, and that's just one more thing that drives me crazy about her.

I've never been so deeply enamored of a woman before with a woman before.

She surrenders shamelessly during sex, enjoying every ounce of pleasure she's entitled to. She obeys and commands, as if knowing intuitively what each of us needs to reach paradise.

I thought I would have a reluctant woman because of her inexperience, but she's a hurricane.

Hot, delicious.

I get out of bed because my body is still full of energy, but I've taken her three times in a short time span and she needs to rest.

I put on boxer shorts, walk into one of the rooms I've turned into a library, and sit on the couch with my head leaning against the backrest and my feet planted on the floor, apart from each other.

I keep one arm covering my eyes as I think about all the decisions I have to make from now on.

For a while, she made me forget. The guilt, the search for justice, theendless whirlpool of pain that has been following me since I woke up that day in the hospital when I was twelve.

I was taken out of Greece, but I'm not sure where I was taken to. I only know that my rescuerand I only returned to my country months later, when I was almost fully recovered.

When I returned to Greece, I was no longer afraid of anything.

We spent months talking about fear, unraveling it, until I completely conquered it.

I was twelve years old, with no reason to live except the possibility of avenging the death of my family. That made me unreachable. When you go through hell, there's nothing more anyone can do to hurt you.

I've managed to set the wheels of my revenge in motion, and it's only a matter of time before it all comes to an end. Before I punish the last person who destroyed my childhood.

And then, what's next?

Before bringing her with me, despite my plans to get married one day, I saw a huge void in my path. I didn't believe I could trust anyone enough to share all of me. I still don't believe it, but despite that, something has changed.

Maybe because I can now see her loneliness too. We are like two perfect pieces of a puzzle.

But what will become of the two of us from now on?

I don't know what to do. Neither concerning immediate decisions nor those that will need to be made in the long-term.

I don't want to send her back to her apartment. I can pretend it's because she would be in danger so long as Naim is still obsessed with her, but that would be an outright lie.

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