Chapter 36: Assistance
Lilac
"You clearly don’t. Cause, if you do... you’d have run the other way instead."
I shook my head as my gaze grew hazy and blurry with tears that filled up my eyes as a wave of pain crashed over me, eating me up from within my stomach.
It hurts so much.
Everything was hurting so much, and it felt like I was drunk at the same time.
A hand settled on my cheek, and as I forced my eyes open, it locked on the prince who stared down at me with heavy lidded eyes. I shivered as the seconds ticked by, then I tried to bite back the desperate sound that was already bubbling in my throat again, but I ended up failing again.
When I realized that I was still holding his wrist, I quickly let go of it while resisting the urge to arch upwards and press my face harder into his palm because his touch felt soothing, comforting and grounding. My brain was malfunctioning so I assumed that was the only reason why I was thinking about comfort and the prince in the same breath. I was scared, knowing how powerful the prince is, and he’s also cursed, but I couldn’t look away, not when my stomach was clenching even harder right now as his gaze slowly raked my body.
"Hurts." I whispered as tears welled in my eyes once again, and that seemed to snap the prince out of it. He pulled away till he sat on his heels, then he slowly regarded me again. I was aware that I was naked waist down, and I wanted to be mortified, but I couldn’t bring myself to care right now.
Touch me.
A desperate part of me whined within my chest while all I let out was a low cry as I shifted around in his bed.