*Ember*
I hadn't meant to fall asleep. The last thing I remembered was lying in the strong arms of the hooded stranger, wishing that I could see his face while I traced the outline of the scar on his broad back with my fingers. But now, I found myself sitting up suddenly as somebody pounded on the barricaded door to my room, and I realized that I must have dozed off in the night.
The guards must finally have come for me, and the last thing I wanted was for them to see that I had spent a lustful night with a strange shifter. Panicked, I turned to the other side of the bed, only to find the rumpled sheets and nobody else in sight.
“Where are you?" I whispered desperately, my eyes raking over the room. There wasn't anywhere for him to hide, other than the bathroom.
Moving as quickly as I
