Yesi I couldn’t tell you how long we stayed that way, snuggled up on Nox’s California king and falling in and out of blissful slumber. The few moments of intermittent consciousness were met with Nox planting the softest kisses wherever he could reach. My forehead, the side of my face, the bridge of my nose… So I don’t know when exactly it happened. I don’t know the exact time I felt it, or if it built up gradually before exploding within me, but my eyes shot open and I sucked in a sharp breath as it hit me. Pain. Mind-numbing, excruciating pain, stemming from two points: the first was just beneath my left breast. The second was the left side of my neck. I pulled away from Nox and placed a hand on each spot, panting through the misery. They gave off different sensations; my neck burned

