~Soren~ I wake with a start, my heart pounding in my chest like I'm going through have a cardiac arrest or something. Sunlight. It’s really too bright. I scramble to sit up, my eyes going to the door. I listen, holding my breath until it hurts. No heavy footfalls in the hallway, no sound of the front door slamming. No muffled voices of my mother and his father discussing the fundraiser or anything. Silence. They aren't back yet. The party must have ended in an all nighter at the Alpha Estate, or maybe they’re still sleeping it off in a guest wing. The mattress shifts next to me I look down, and the breath I was holding escapes me in a breathy exhale. Felix. He is lying across the dark sheets, the duvet bunched at his waist, he's devastatingly good-looking in the morning, raw, unf

