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Chapter 25 - Chapter 11 – POST-CARNAL… CHAOS

Auren's POV:

I woke up with something heavy draped over me.

Warm. Solid. Scented like smoke and steel and the vaguest hint of crushed violets.

My legs ache. My back aches. My soul? …in the middle of filing a lawsuit for emotional whiplash.

My everything hurts. But not in a bad way.

…In a way that screamed "CONGRATULATIONS, YOU DIED (AGAIN), AND THIS TIME IT WAS ON A BED."

"…Oh no."

The memory hit me like a whole goddamn freight train. 

Kael. Me.

Kael ON me.

Me UNDER Kael.

Kael INSIDE m—

"NOPE NOPE NOPE!"

I slapped both palms over my face, heat crawling up my neck like a wildfire on steroids. My thighs instinctively pressed together as a delayed wave of everything from last night came crashing back like–

"AGAIN."

AND AGAIN.

AND AGAIN.

AND— WHY WAS HE SO GOOD AT THAT?! WHAT WAS THAT TONGUE DOING THERE?!

I rolled onto my side, only to remember that–oh right. He was still there. 

Half-draped over my back, face nuzzled into my hair, breathing so damn peacefully like he didn't just ruin me from the inside out.

Literally. Figuratively. Spiritually.

Kael.

The terrifyingly powerful, heart-stoppingly attractive Commander of this world… had just—

"You. Got. Laid."

SYSTEM.

"In spectacular, record-shattering, deeply unholy fashion."

"Shut up," I muttered into the pillow, voice muffled and clearly not intimidating.

"My diagnostic scan detected no structural injuries, but your vocal cords seem to have undergone unusual strain. Need I remind you, your last coherent word before you passed out was his name? Repeated. Three times."

I threw a pillow at the invisible voice in my head.

And missed.

Because, duh, it's a system. It has no corporeal form.

"Also, your heart rate is still elevated, your spiritual thread is flickering, and your aura is glowing like a post-coital neon sign."

"STOP. TALKING."

I sat up, only to immediately wince and fall back down, groaning. 

The soreness wasn't terrible. But my pride? Fucking demolished.

A hand shifted on my waist, fingers tightening slightly in sleep. Kael mumbled something under his breath.

"...N—Auren… stay…"

And oh.

Oh no.

OH HELL NO.

My heart flailed inside my chest like a fish out of water.

He remembered my name. He whispered it in his sleep.

I might've died again. Spiritually. Emotionally. Carnally– again.

"You're blushing," the system said with obscene satisfaction.

"Shall I record this for our internal memory vault? Tagging: First Post-Coital Fluster. Virginity.exe has been successfully corrupted."

I rolled over, pulling the blanket up to my neck, and screamed into it.

Quietly.

Because I didn't want to wake the man who just broke me in every way possible and made me want more.

"He held me like I mattered…" I whispered into the dark.

He touched me like I was fragile, even when I shattered under him. He looked at me like I was a secret he'd waited lifetimes to uncover.

And I—

I didn't know what to do with that.

Was this just sex? 

Or something else? Something deeper?

I bit my lip. "I… liked it."

"No shit, Sherlock."

"System."

"Yes, my freshly-deflowered Host?"

"Shut the fuck up."

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