Zephyr reclined on the sofa chair in the living room of his home. Silence pressed into him from all angles, but his thoughts remained loud, his bones restless. He was still shaken up from everything that had happened. The five men who came to his home, the threat he’d received, and now permitting a woman who is wanted by the most powerful man in the world to spend a night in his home. This was a nightmare, one he wished he could wake from.
They could still be out there. The five men could be locking around waiting to spot her so that they can take his life along with hers.
This is bad, really bad. Zephyr’s mind stirred. He glanced towards the stairs. They’d finished having dinner and he’d offered them his bedroom upstairs while he stayed in the living room.
Zephyr exhaled a hard brea
