Elara’s POV
My head felt like someone had split it open with an axe. A pounding headache slammed against my skull the second I tried to open my eyes. I groaned and pressed my palm to my forehead.
“What did that bastard do to me?” I whispered.
Everything hurt. My back, my ribs, my legs…every single muscle screamed from the fight. That cheap neck chop he gave me still left my body feeling heavy and strange. I forced myself to sit up slowly, breathing through the dizziness.
Everything around me was dark…black sheets, black furniture, dark wood walls that looked like they could swallow light whole. The air felt thick with power, heavy and masculine, like the room itself was breathing with dark alpha energy. It reeked of him. Alpha Thorne.
This was his bedroom. His territory.
My stomach t
