Surrogate for the Alpha Prince in a Coma novel Chapter 256

Chapter 256

won’t let her,” Grayson said, and seemed so confident about that. Deep down, he really did feel like she could still be trusted, didn’t he? He had no idea how malicious she was.

My father might have given me that warning about Odette in an effort to frighten me, but that didn’t make what he said untrue. She was conniving and vicious. She would settle at nothing to see me in the grave and Grayson as her husband. She wanted that throne. It didn’t matter if I wasn’t with Grayson anymore. My very existence was enough of a threat.

“Do you trust that I can protect you?” Grayson asked.

“I trust that you want to,” I said.

“Lily…”

There was something in his voice that made me turn to look at him. Something soft. Broken.

And as I looked, the same emotion I had heard in his voice was there on his face. Just like that, I wanted to fall into him, my walls cracking.

I couldn’t do this. Couldn’t give in, but… When he looked at me like he was, like I held his heart in my hands, he was so difficult to resist.

Since I returned, tension had been building between us. It bubbled now, boiling over.

We had so many reasons to stay apart from each other, but in this moment…

He reached for me as quickly as I reached for him.

Our lips met, our arms flew around each other.

We kissed with passion, our tongues delving deeply into each other’s mouths, tangling. I clawed at his shoulders, he held me firmly to him, nearly tight enough to squeeze the breath from me.

I wasn’t breathing anyway. He had stolen that from me with this kiss.

His hands dipped lower, to the hem of my shirt. He slipped his fingers underneath, brushing my skin.

The contact knocked me out of the trance I was in, and I pulled back away from him. His hold loosened. He let me go.

“Lilly, I -”

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