Audrey & Edwin
Audrey’s POV
Edwin and I crumpled back to the forest floor in a sweaty heap of tangled limbs and parted lips, panting heavily in the warm afternoon air.
Too long. It had been far too long since I had been with him, since I had felt him. I hadn’t realized how much I had missed it, how empty I felt without it.
“We’re going to regret this,” I murmured, even as I nestled down on his chest and tucked my arms around him.
Edwin let out a low growl in response, his fingers trailing across my exposed arm. “Perhaps,” was all he said. Perhaps, indeed. But right now, neither of us seemed to care about the consequences of our tryst; to hell with Grayspring, and expectations, and age differences.
As I laid there, listening to the sound of his rapid heartbeat slow back
