Andres pov
Just one month
It was insane enough how I wanted her to stay, but giving her a month to fall in love was so thrilling it had me smiling, a little bit anxious too—something thrilling aside from killing—and I wasn’t ready to back out.
I was going to make sure I won the bet; I never failed, and I had an upper hand knowing I was competing with someone dead, which still baffled me. She fought to stay with a dead man rather than me; I was a prize no woman would dare to lose, but Anita chose a dead man over me.
Which hurts my ego so much, but she was my mate, as we are meant to be.
She was confident that I loved it, which made this challenge worth my time. Aside from her naked body before me, she attempted to seduce me too. Oh goddess, she was so innocent. I recalled her lips on m
