Kalilah POV
My heart was beating in my chest when I returned to my room.
He made his interest in me officially known, trying to make a move on me, but I was still caught up on his earlier words—about how I needed to pull my own weight. The way he’d said it, sharp and cold, followed by that sudden closeness, the touch, the whisper…
Was he trying to say I had to sleep with him in exchange for staying here?
My stomach turned.
No. That wasn’t something I was willing to do. Not for shelter. Not for safety. Not for him.
I would scrub every floor in this place. I would bleed into the training grounds. I would burn myself out trying to prove I was more than just some stray clinging to the edge of their pack.
But sleeping with Damon? No. Not in exchange for staying here.
A man had already m
