Chapter 194

Calliope was honestly tempted to plug her ears. Seriously, was it some universal law that men changed the second they got a taste of intimacy? No one seemed immune. Lucien was like this too in her past life-completely out of control after marriage. Back then, she'd naively thought he'd only had eyes for her. But even so... that didn't come close to what happened with Conrad that night. She couldn't even remember if she'd passed out from the pain or, well... the other thing. Just thinking about that dizzying, floating-in-the-clouds feeling made her cheeks heat up. She hated admitting it, but damn... she'd folded way too easily under his attack. Gritting her teeth in silence, she kept playing dead. Of course Conrad knew she was pretending. His gaze darkened, but in the end, he didn't push. He got up, turned off the lights, then came back to pull her into his arms. But sleep? Not happening for him that night. With her curled up in his arms, looking but not touching was absolute torture. H