(Lena’s POV). The room was quiet. Too quiet. Sunlight leaked in through the half-closed blinds, casting faint golden stripes across the floor and the crumpled sheets tangled around my legs. I lay still, sprawled across the bed in a daze, the events of the previous day looping in my mind like a broken record. The moans. The touches. The heat. The way my body still aches in all the places they’d claimed. It had been… too much. Too much pleasure, emotion and confusion. My body was exhausted, but it was my heart that felt the heaviest. I hadn’t gone to school. I couldn’t face anyone. Not after everything. Not with the way Lucas had looked at me. Not with Kai’s words still echoing in my head. And definitely not with the way Adrian had left a mark on my neck so visible I’d had to we

