When Sera Monroe woke up, it was already the next morning.

The bed beside her was empty.

It felt like everything from last night might've just been a dream.

But the soreness in her body and the marks scattered across her skin told a much different story—last night was very, very real.

Elliot Monroe really had come back.

And they had…

As she recalled the way he'd held her so tightly… whispering over and over "Don't leave me", Sera's cheeks flushed a ...