#Chapter 91: The Restricted Section

Tessa

The weeks after that night in Gideon’s study passed in a blur, and yet somehow more normal than I expected.

Of course, I rebuilt the wall around my heart brick by brick, and made sure to build it thicker than it was before. I told myself I had been foolish—reckless, even—to think that I could seduce Gideon, a man still bound to his mate.

The memory of his mating mark glowing and the pained l