Eve
I finally drifted into an uneasy sleep sometime after dawn, the kind where dreams tangled with reality—blood on white lace, Sage’s voice promising vengeance, my parents’ faces fading into shadows. When I woke, sunlight streamed through the curtains, bright and unforgiving.
11:24 a.m.???
I blinked at the clock on the nightstand, groaning softly. I’d slept longer than I had in years. Then again, yesterday had been… everything.
The other side of the bed was untouched. Sheets smooth, pillows undisturbed. Sage never came back.
Did he really sleep somewhere else? Give me the whole bed out of some twisted consideration? The thought irritated me more than it should have.
I wasn’t due at the company for another week—transition period, they called it. The empire was finally mine. Clarissa
