AVA POV.
Loud noise and echoing commotion outside the master bedroom door yanked me out of my heavy, exhausted sleep.
My eyes snapped open in the pitch blackness of the unfamiliar room, my heart instantly leaping into my throat when I realised I actually slept off in his bed.
The air in the room felt heavy, freezing, and suffocating. Before my brain could even process where I was, the click handle made me imagine and the worst as the door slowly pushed inward, creating a widening slice of harsh yellow light from the hallway that cut directly across the dark bedroom floor.
I scrambled backward against the headboard, desperately pulling the thick silk sheets up to my chin as my breath trapped itself inside my burning lungs.
A tall, broad and shouldered figure stepped across the light,
