Kelly
I couldn’t describe the relief that flooded through me the moment I saw Alaric. Even shirtless, standing in the pale glow of the moonlight pouring through the broken window, he looked like a knight in shining armor— no, fiercer than that. His chest rose and fell sharply, muscles taut, veins standing out as though ready to strike down the world itself for daring to harm me. The moment my trembling body collided with his, the dam broke. I sobbed into his chest, shaking uncontrollably, my tears soaking into his warm skin.
For the first time since this nightmare began, I wasn’t alone.
That was surely the scariest experience of my life. The memory still flashed behind my eyelids; the masked man’s shadow, the crushing pressure on my neck, the way the air had been stolen from me while m
