Lilianna awoke in the later hours of the evening to find Julian still fast asleep beside her. Taking a moment to study how perfectly peaceful this stoic Adonis beside her had appeared, she noted details of his complexion that she had missed until this moment. Such details included that of a beauty mark hidden beneath his stubble and a scar on the base of his left earlobe that showed how he once held a piercing there. She smirked at the thought as she attempted to imagine a more rebellious side of the well-behaved man. Her moment of humor met its cessation as his expression twisted into something sinister as it was clear he was having a dream of the unwelcome variety. Lilianna sat her hand lightly upon his cheek and spoke in a kind tone how she was ‘right here’. The worry on his face seemed
