The light from the sun penetrated Larisa’s eyes as she opened them, blurrily peeking around at her surroundings. From what she could see, she was in a room, a very extravagant one at that.
The yellow curtains that Julian held onto made way to large, glass windows that projected the sunlight onto her. There was a ceiling fan above her head, gold in colour and the bulb in the centre of the blades was turned off.
There were many other things she could’ve noticed too, but Julian’s presence was too disruptive and oppressive for her to look away from him for too long. So she kept her gaze on the smile on his lips as he let go of the curtains he seemed to have drawn open and approached her. “You’re awake now, I see.”
He walked around the bed, and her eyes followed him warily. There was a dist
