Silence crashed down between them, thick and suffocating, broken only by her ragged, sobbing breaths.
His broad shoulders trembled as he loomed over her, his obsidian eyes burning with a twisted cocktail of possessiveness, anger, and something else… something darker.
Her cracked lips trembled as she choked out in a hoarse whisper, "Why… why won't you let me go… what did I ever do to you…?"
He stared down at her, his handsome face carved from stone as his fingers flexed against her shoulders, fighting the trembling that threatened to betray him.
"You are mine, Yueyao," he said, his voice low and guttural, vibrating with a barely contained madness. "That's all you ever did wrong."
A broken sob tore from her chest as her fists beat weakly against his arms, her tears soaking his crisp white shirt as she whispered over and over again:
"I hate you… I hate you… I hate you…"
