Chapter 14
Lauren
When I woke up, for a moment I forgot everything from the night before and simply felt happy. The filmy netting draped around our bed caught the morning light and made it feel as if we were in a cloud. And Rye was next to me, his long, beautiful, naked body stretched long, his silvery eyes still half-closed.
"Good morning," he murmured as he kissed my shoulder. "Did you sleep well?"
And then it all came crashing back. Everything that had happened with Bliss, everything she'd told me.
Everything I'd decided last night before falling into traumatized, shivering sleep. I sat up, pulling the sheet around me.
"Rye, we have to leave today. By the jungle trail. Then you have to go back to the States."
I could see a million questions in his tempestuous eyes. "We’ll both go
