Chapter Fifty three

Chapter

Vanessa

I wake to a pang in my lower belly, my thighs trembling with an aftershock of pain that elicits a low whimper from my chest. Ugh. It feels like a tree fell on my head.

Every part of me aches, but especially my insides. I groan, trying to curl into a ball, only to come up against a hard wall of flesh. I freeze, my heart leaping into my throat.

Warmth washes over me, touching me all the way to my toes.

“Morning, gorgeous,” a deep voice rumbles, fingers combing through my hair. “Well, evening, technically. You’ve slept all day.” I swallow. Where am I?

Everything feels so hazy.

So unclear.

So… so… unreal.

Because the fantasy unfolding in my mind can’t be accurate. Jake forcing me to shift. Followed by a chase. Kev catching me. Both of them… I shiver, the vivid memory of having them inside me making my thighs clench, which stirs another whine from deep within. Because ow.

“Shhh,” the masculine wall hums.

Jordan , I recognize, his peppermint scent surrounding me. But there