CHAPTER FORTY–SEVEN
KILLIAN’S POV
The second pulled up to the house, something in me to
me twisted. My heart was thumping hard against my chest, and I hadn’t even stepped out of the damn car yet. The front door was alwide open, and I didn’t wait for anyone to invite me in. I
rushed up the stairs two at a time, my steps loud, urgent, fast.
What hit me first wasn’t the heat or the tension. It was the look on their faces.
Liana’s dad, my stepdad, and my mom were standing there in the hallway, sweating like they’d just run a marathon. My mom’s hands were shaking as she clutched her phone, and Liana’s dad, a man who once promised to kill me if I came near
his daughter again, walked up to me, grabbed my shoulder tightly.
“Please… help my daughter,” he whispered, voice cracked, eyes wide with fear. It wasn’t just desperation. It was terror.
I stiffened. “What the fuck is going on? What happened to her?”
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My mom stepped closer, her voice trembling. “She’s in heat, Killian. She’s asking for you. Over and over. You’re the only one
she’s calling.”
I blinked. “In heat?”
I looked between their faces, trying to process what she just said. Heat?
That didn’t make sense.
Liana wasn’t a werewolf.
Right?
But then I caught the way they looked at each other. As if wondering if they could tell me or not.
Without another word, I turned and bolted down the hallway.
Her scent hit me before I even reached the room. My knees almost buckled. It was so thick, so intoxicating, so fucking raw. Her scent always drove me insane but now… now it was like it had multiplied, evolved. It was animalistic. It was need.
I shoved her door open. The moment I stepped inside, I slammed it shut and locked it.
“Oh baby…”
My voice cracked.
She was in the bathroom, in the tub, naked. Her skin was flushed red, sweet clinging to her everywhere, her body shaking,
her eyes blood–red and glassy, and fuck, while she saw me…
That smile.
Weak Soft. But it was there.
She smiled like she’d been waiting for me all her life
And her teeth… my eyes widened. Her canines were longer. Sharper. Her tattoo was glowing like fire.
She wasn’t just a human.
She was one of us.
My chest tightened. She didn’t know. Fuck, she didn’t even know what was happening to her.
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And she was in heat.
My cock swelled instantly. My body fucking recognized it before my mind could. The urge to strip down and bury myself inside her was louder than any other thought. But I still stood there, frozen for a second, watching her breathe heavily, watching her tremble.
Her thighs were glistening, parted slightly, and her fingers had been there. Fuck. My name was still on her lips.
I swallowed hard.
“Liana… I’m here. I’m right here, baby,” I said gently, moving closer to the tub. “I’m not going anywhere.”
She whimpered, her hand reaching out to me like she didn’t have the strength to speak anymore. Her body was working against her, begging for release, for touch, for me. The heat was destroying her from the inside out.
I had questions. a thousand of them. How? Why? Who the fuck kept this from her? From me? norm
But all of that could wait.
Right now, I had one job.
Help her.
I yanked my shirt off, tossed it aside. My belt hit the floor a second later, Pants came off just as fast. My cock was already
leaking, hard as steel. I didn’t care. I didn’t think.
All I saw was her.
All I wanted was to take the pain away.
She looked up at me with dazed eyes, her lips parting.
“K–Killian… it hurts… please…”
I stepped into the tub fully naked, water sloshing around us.
“I got you,” I whispered, cupping her face. “I’m here now. You’re not going through this alone.”
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I leaned in, kissed her forehead, then her cheeks, then her lips. She whimpered into my mouth, and the sound fucking destroyed me. My hand slid down her body, gently touching her side, her stomach, her thighs.
She was burning.
“You’re gonna be okay,” I whispered again, voice rough with emotion. “I promise, baby. I promise.”
