A loud knock on the door and someone calling for me woke me up. "My Queen, it's noon..." Shit, I never sleep this late. Slowly, I sat up in bed, my body and brain still asleep. I was about to let Melisa enter, when I felt and unusual achiness between my thighs. What the hell? Why was there stickiness there? It took my mind a moment to remember what happened yesterday... or better to say this morning. Before saying anything else, I started looking around the room searching for Raven, but it was clear that he was not here. Did he leave? My hand immediately shot to the side where I expected he was sleeping, but the spot was already cold. An uncertain pain shot through my chest as I stared at the balcony doors as my still hazy brain tried to make sense of all this, but it was too

