Tomorrow in "The Rat and the Dragon," if you were thinking Roan was going to get Cylthan back... you would be correct.
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“What do you want?” she growled without looking at him, hoping he wouldn’t hear how choked up she was. “Got a dungeon fetish?”
“No, actually. I’d be much more turned on if you were purring in my warm bed.”
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There's a lot of hot and cold between them. Roan's got his own demons behind those eyes that she'll learn about later. The reason most of this chapter is her point of view is because next chapter, he will talk about what he was thinking which leads into her learning about him. Almost everyone has a sad story that led them to be Seekers.
This is by far the biggest chapter of the story so far. Whether it's the biggest for the whole story, I'm not sure yet, but it's over 4k words. I don't think you'll be too upset.
You know who was upset, though? An old friend who recently reached out because she heard I was writing this particular story again. She was loving it... until chapter 11. In the previous, Cylthan was flirty and that's what started all that. Well, as the author, I know he would have tackled her and taken what he wanted back then, too. She's just more true to form now since she's a virgin who never even considered sex or rape until Roan was sitting on top of her and told her he would get hard if she kept struggling. It never even occurred to her until that moment. Thanks to Roan, it'll be a lot of what she thinks about from now on, though. There goes that purity... Hmmm, I wonder if that might cause problems later? Enjoy!