Chapter 44 - Present
"Maybe, that helped a little, but no moon or person can force me to do something I don't want to do anymore."
Like the ringing of a bell, such words resounded in Richard's mind while he thought about how the distance between him and Callum had narrowed so much in that short amount of time.
... It was like in one second, he had seen the other man standing still beside the table, and in the next, he was already in front of him like magic, with their bodies so close to each other that he could even feel his breathing...
"Do you remember how you told me when I said to you that my parents were against my marriage to Juliana?" Bringing back the memories that hadn't left Alpha's mind recently, Callum mentioned while the other man took another step backward as he approach
