Kaisun smiled and leaned in, brushing his lips softly against hers. The kiss was tender, fleeting, but it stirred the hunger burning just beneath his skin. As he pulled away, the heat in his chest surged. Poisoning Shadow hadn't been working well lately, and the lust he'd absorbed from the monsters was now pulsing, alive and violent, at his core.
"I've missed you so much," he murmured, his eyes flickering with a mischievous, dangerous light.
Ren reached up to undress herself, her slow movements catching his gaze like a snare, until he suddenly grabbed her wrist.
"No!"
His voice was sharp, nearly trembling. It was hell holding himself back. Every part of him ached to touch her, to lose himself in her warmth, but he couldn't. He refused to drown her in the corruption twisting inside him.
"What?"
Ren blinked, stunned. He had just rejected her. She was willingly giving her body to him.
"Go back to bed and rest," he said, releasing her hand. "I have to go somewhere."
