Reena POV:
I woke the following day with Atlas’s arms tightly wrapped around me. I didn’t move, even though I needed to use the bathroom badly. I loved the warmth that seemed to tingle throughout my body at his touch, and I didn’t want to lose that just yet. I closed my eyes, relaxing back into his embrace as I thought about the night before. Something inside of me was telling me it was true. But it still didn’t scare me. I waited for the fear to come, the panic to begin to rise, but it still wasn’t there. “Morning, beautiful,” Atlas’s voice was husky in my ear. “Good morning… How’d you know I was awake?” I thought he was still asleep. He chuckled lightly behind me, “Your heart rate picked up.”
I moved to climb from bed, but his arms tightened around me, “just a few more minutes.” I stil
