It was too hot. I craved coolness.
A hot cocoon wrapped around my entire body. When I opened my eyes, the first thing I saw was a bare male chest. For a moment, I couldn’t understand where I was, what I was doing there, or whose chest it was.
But the moment I lifted my head and saw his face, my body shuddered as if seized by strange spasms, instinctively trying to break free from a steel grip.
Kirill took a deep breath and began to wake up.
I froze, unable to escape.
“You’re already awake?” his hoarse voice murmured.
“Please… let me go.”
Instead, Kirill pulled me even closer, greedily inhaling the scent of my hair.
“Give me five minutes to enjoy this moment, and you’re free.”
“You’ll let me go home?”
“No. I’ll let you out of my arms. Now lie still.”
And I did.
My shirt was bunc
