Chapter 8
THAT NIGHT, ALEXIS hoped for a night without any dreams. She should’ve known that she was asking too much. There was never a night that she didn’t dream. Sometimes she forgot about the dreams before she woke up, but sometimes they were too realistic for her to ever forget what happened in them.
The first sensation that hit Alexis was the shivers coursing throughout her body and the heavy feeling in her belly. It contrasted with what she was feeling, as there was a hunger so sharp within her that it made her want to turn on within herself. She was certain that her belly was tying itself into knots upon knots as she took step after step through a blinding snow.
Alexis turned her head down, her nose brushing the top of the snow. Her body was heavy enough to sink through the soft
