ODETTE'S POV:
What was I thinking asking him to stay with me? He is my captor, my tormentor, and yet, just now he'd been my rock. The thing that grounded me, when I felt hollow and faded. But when he practically read my mind with one word, it was everything in the world and then some.
Kalvin had always made me feel seen and safe, but in Ambrose's arms. It was something else entirely different. His heart beating against my chest, it was soothing, the sleep I found with him next to me. It helped me collect myself.
I felt guilty think like this, enjoying his company and the comfort another man offered. It felt wrong to enjoy it. But still something felt right.
Oh man, I'm so f'ing screwed.
Then there's the fact he also summoned Emalea to help me, giving me a sense of privacy he denied me of before.
He was acting like a completely different man from when I first met him in my cold damp cell.
