CHAPTER 62
LEILA’S POV
I stirred, closed eyelids clenching for a few seconds before I released the hold I had on them. Slowly, without opening my eyes, I woke up fully.
The intense fever that had crippled me earlier was nowhere to be found; the deep aching in my bones had finally gone away as well.
I shifted slightly, feeling my cheek pressed against the rise and fall of someone’s chest… my brain was slow to process as Alaric’s scent wafted into my nostrils. It sent an intense sense of calm all over my body, turning my bones into complete mush and almost taking away every bit of my will to stay awake.
My eyes drifted behind my eyelids for a few seconds before they slowly fluttered open, staring at the slightly parted curtain and at the gentle beginning of the sunrise.
I lay there, u
