**Elena’s POV**
I stayed exactly where he’d left me, naked, glowing, and sprawled across the tangled sheets. I didn't move a single inch. I just lay there, my eyes following Stefano as he rolled out of bed to reach for his phone. I watched his muscles shift as he got up. I tracked the sharp, powerful line of his spine. My gaze drifted lower, admiring his bare ass; firm, unapologetic, and perfect.
A slow, greedy smile tugged at my lips.
I never thought I’d be this woman. The kind who could look at a man and want to devour him whole, even after he’d already spent hours doing the same to me.
Then, his voice cut through the silence.
“What?” he snapped into the phone.
The smile slipped.
I pushed myself up onto my elbows, suddenly alert. His back went rigid. He glanced at me over his sho
