The Brutal Rejection

Elara looked up into Julian’s deeply reddened, manic eyes, her erratic breathing shallow and sharp in the heavy darkness of the bedroom. The absolute insanity in his gaze was terrifying, a wild, suffocating obsession that threatened to swallow her whole. Yet, for a fraction of a second, her heart momentarily, foolishly softened. She saw beneath the raw, aggressive lust to that deeply familiar, pat