Chapter 178:
Vincent's POV
The raw terror bleeding from her eyes spoke volumes, requiring absolutely no translation. Pure, unadulterated disgust at my touch flared in her widened pupils, her entire body flinching away from me with a desperate, frantic rejection as if I were a walking plague coming to tear her apart.
I took my time watching the rapid, panicked flutter of her eyelashes, her delicate features contorting in deep, suffocating distress. This girl was a walking contradiction right before my eyes one second throwing fierce, suicidal rebellion from her tongue, and the next, completely succumbing to the violent trembling of her submissive body.
She looked exactly like a shivering bird caught in a torrential downpour, yet she possessed a reckless, fatal streak of audacity that drove me completely insane.
Desperately trying to claw her way out of the suffocating trap she had dug herself into, she took a single, halting step back.
