Chapter One-Hundred-and-Seventy-Six

The following morning, as daylight hit Kat’s naked body, Adam suddenly awoke to the change in her melody as her transformation was undone. The crimson glass hand was the only thing he couldn’t take off and its blood sense was impossible to completely ignore.

For once, he had been able to find sleep, even though he’d been lying next to an inhuman beast. It was strange to feel that he could trust someone enough to let his guard down. He would never have expected it, but the reminder that he was human, that he was alive, it had relieved a lot of the tension he’d felt. The Trials always pushed him to the brink of his humanity, but that single night with Kat had reeled him back in. It wasn’t as though they were in love, in fact it was just spur of the moment attraction. Although it was clear she felt gratitude towards him for his help, and he felt some sympathy towards her for what Aeran had done, neither of them had possessed any ulterior motives.

It was refreshingly-simple.

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