Adeline opened her eyes, fear gripping her throat as she thought she was burning again. The heat around her was suffocating. For a second she thought she was back at the stake, but she felt no pain and she couldn’t hear the crowd roaring around her.
As she held perfectly still in the darkness, slowly, she studied her surroundings. She was lying in a bed with soft covers and the thing constraining her was not rope, but strong, muscular arms that held her just as tightly. The warmth did not come from a fire, but from the body next to her.
His smell was familiar, and so was his touch. Even the bed felt familiar and as she turned her head, she realized the room was too. Closing her eyes, Adeline let out a sigh of relief.
She was home. With Kaden. And she was alive.
Her body felt slightl
