I growled and palmed my pec. “Fucking get out, Aflora,” I demanded, needing her as far away from me as possible before I did something I couldn’t take back.
“And go where?” she asked, her voice suddenly much quieter than before.
The temptation to look at her, to apologize, hit me so swiftly that I snarled. Because fuck that. She didn’t deserve my concern. She’d trapped me in her forbidden web and ensured I couldn’t leave without significant pain to us both!
I hated her.
Loathed her fucking existence.
Wished I’d never met her.
“Get out!” I shouted, uncaring of how deranged I sounded. Molten lava boiled in my veins, my power increasing by the second. If she didn’t fucking leave, I’d explode and she’d bear the brunt of that eruption.
Her sob pierced my ears.
I ignored her.
Too focused on the mounting anger threatening to shred us both.
I barely noticed her running past me in a pair of pants and a shirt, didn’t once consider how she’d dressed so quickly, and instead knelt on the floor to unleash the power that threatened my very existence. Flames erupted throughout every inch of her room, destroying the evidence of our fucking, and eating through all her belongings in a thorough sweep of power.
Objects could be replaced.
I’d figure it out later.
When I could properly think again.
“Fuck!” I bellowed, red flames encircling me and spiraling and screeching across the room. A blast of power slammed the door to keep it from spreading through the suite, leaving me trapped inside the raging inferno.
I welcomed the heat.
The punishment for my actions.
And crumpled into a broken pile of guilt and sorrow.
Not just because I’d let the Midnight Fae down, and my parents, but Aflora as well.
I deserved to burn.
I welcomed the pain.
“Destroy me,” I demanded, my forehead meeting the ground. “Just fucking destroy me.”
Chapter Twenty-Five
Aflora
Hot.
I felt too hot.
Like a volcano on the verge of an eruption.
Heat simmered beneath my skin, inching through my veins, causing me to sweat as I ran aimlessly through the midnight air.
Get out.
Fucking get out.