64. Pain Beyond Reckoning

AELIANA

I walked through the halls, my heart pounding with each step. I gasped as a deep, intoxicating scent hit my nose; I'd never smelled anything so addictive, so seductive that it made me dizzy. My heart thumped as I inhaled it. It smelt so much like Voktor’s… Just a billion times more tempting if that were even possible. I stopped outside a door and opened it.

My mate was here and deep down