Page 43 of The Breeding Cave
“Is that why you left work today during lunch?” The words left my mouth before I could stop them.
“How did you know that I left? Are you following me? What did?—”
“Don’t try to get out of this, Yeosin,” I growled. “How long has this been going on?”
She pressed her lips together and shook her head.
“How long?”
“Since the night before we met,” she whispered, bursting out in tears. “They’ve been threatening me.” She wrapped her arms around my torso and buried her face into my chest. “Hurting me … so badly. I … I don’t know what to do. Please, help me.”
CHAPTER
TWENTY-ONE
YEOSIN
The beast’s eyes blazed in the darkness, leaving a trail of light in every direction he looked. I stared up at the monster who I had promised myself not to fall for, realizing that I had told him my secret.
Realizing that … that he probably didn’t care.
We were only together so he could breed me. We were only together so I could give him children. We were only together because he had given me ten million dollars to have sex with him and because I was desperate for the cash.
Why would he care at all?
“Get out of the hot spring,” he growled. “Joseph will bring you home.”
“And where will you go?” I whispered, not wanting him to leave.
It was bad enough that I had just spilled everything to him, but I had also been feeling really bad since hooking up with Luciano in the elevator. And I hadn’t even fulfilled my duties to the beast in the cave tonight.
All I had done was cry.
“I’m going to find which one of them did this to you and kill them,” he snarled. “Out now.”
My eyes widened, and a warm feeling washed over my entire body. I was in no place to feel all these feelings for a man who only wanted my womb, but … but the way he had sounded so possessive … made me feel special.
It was what I had been craving in the elevator with Luciano …
“Yeosin,” he growled. “Don’t make me say it again.”
I placed my palms on the rock and pushed myself out of the water until I sat on my knees. I turned back to face him, watching the water ripple around his taut frame as he walked to the edge and hopped out of the hot spring.
While I didn’t know much about him, by the way his eyes were glowing so brightly that I could see him in the darkness … he was about to do something stupid and get himself killed, leaving everyone who still relied on him.
“You don’t have to go.”
He stormed out of the room and down the chiseled hallway. “Yes, I do.”
“They’ll kill you,” I said, hurrying after him.
“I don’t care,” he snarled, voice gruff.
I grabbed his elbow. “I do.”
The beast froze with his back turned toward me. I walked around him to face him and finally caught a glimpse of his face underneath the shimmer of moonlight. But before I could see all of it, he turned his head.
“Don’t go,” I reasoned. “I take it back. I don’t need help. I was just … just scared.”
