AURORA

Half awaken, I steal a gaze across the room. My head pounds, and my body is achy and sore, like every muscle in my body has been overworked or pulled. I turn around, and an exquisite figure lies beside me. Naked.

His face is pressed so close to mine that I can feel his hot breath fanning my face.

I look around at my surroundings in a daze. The marbled floors glisten in the faint moonlight peeping through the drawn curtains.

A glass decanter of amber liquor gleams on the dresser beside ...