THERESA
When I awoke, it was with a gasp. Nothing looked familiar. Where I’d closed my eyes was not where I’d opened them. And staring down at me was a very shirtless Nikolai with just a towel wrapped around his torso with his blond hair dripping wet.
“Why are you—” he started, tight features and a scowl on his face, his fists clenched, and his eyes shooting daggers at me.
I looked around while adrenaline shot through my system, trying to make sense of how I’d ended up where I had. My chest tightened and a choking sensation took hold of me as more and more came back to me. I had fallen asleep and somehow ended up in Nikolai’s room. Yes, I’d been having issues with sleepwalking, but he didn’t know that. From where he was standing, this looked very very bad.
“I slept walked,” I still tr
