CHAPTER 43
LEILA’S POV
My eyebrows drew together slightly as I felt a soft warmth on my face.
I slowly opened my eyes, staring at the golden morning light filtering gently through the curtains.
I blinked, silently adoring the beautiful sunrise in full display through the slim gap between the curtains.
For a moment, I didn’t move. I just lay there, clinging to the bedsheet as the warmth slowly spread through the rest of my body.
My muscles felt loose… looser than they’d been in a long time, my body humming with the memory of last night.
Last night—the one that still hadn’t happened, despite all my pleading with him.
His words still rang clear in my head, filled with longing, with want, with that controlled desire that always threatened to drive me mad whenever it came too close.
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