Delphine... she had always felt it. That strange, unexplainable feeling in her chest whenever she looked at Aether. Like there was something more about him—something beyond logic or reason.
She could never quite put her finger on it. She didn't even understand why she felt this way.
He was younger than her. Much younger, in fact. Yet, somehow, he was the only person who had ever managed to steal her heart so effortlessly... like it belonged to him all along.
Like it had been waiting just for him to come and take it.
He showed her things she didn't even know she had been missing. He showed her what love was supposed to feel like—what life meant when it was shared with someone real.
He made her feel jealousy, raw and unfiltered. He annoyed her endlessly, teased her until she fumed—and made her crave it. He awakened something inside her… something primal, something she had long buried.
Lust!
