CHAPTER 24
“s**t, GORGEOUS. LOOK at the state of you.”
I blinked a couple of times and found Leo lying on his side, looking down at me. At some point in the night I’d thrown the covers off, and now I was wrapped up only in him. The early morning light slanted through the window, highlighting the angles of his face, the deep blue of his eyes, the stubble speckled across his jaw. I ran the back of my hand along it, imagining that rough scratch between my legs. But he looked worried.
“What’s wrong? Is it my hair?”
He pressed a soft kiss to my lips. “No, the rest of you.”
I followed his gaze down my body. The bruises on my hips and arms had gone a delightful shade of purple. “Oops.”
“I didn’t mean to hurt you.”
“You didn’t. You made me feel alive. Believe me, I’d soon have stopped you i
