Selene POV
Sunlight burns through my eyelids.
I'm warm. Too warm. Something heavy drapes across my waist.
My eyes snap open.
Rex's arm. His body curved around mine from behind. His breath steady against my neck.
We're in his bed. His massive bed with silk sheets that smell like him—sandalwood and something darker.
I'm naked.
Memory crashes back. Last night. The study. Straddling him on the floor. That challenge in his eyes when he said 'come at me, my queen.'
Heat floods my face.
We kissed. God, we kissed until I couldn't breathe. Until the world narrowed to just his mouth and hands and the hard length of him beneath me.
But we didn't—
I shift slightly. My body aches in ways that confirm it. Tender. Used. But not that way.
He touched me. Everywhere. Made me come apa
