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She woke at midnight again, sleep was next to impossible when her skin felt like it was melting off her bones.

When her eyes opened, her body was still taut, no matter what she did last night, the electrifying feeling of need that Callum left her with didn't subside. He didn't offer any explanation of where he was going or what happened. Hell, she didn’t even know if he got back. She had to force herself back to sleep in the big empty house, still wet and tremoring.

Sleep had finally taken reign but she woke up again at dawn, her appetite was longer on sex but filling the insatiable hole in her stomach. It was a lifelong habit to starve herself and not even realize it, so it wasn't a shock to her.

Alice scrambled into the kitchen to find something to eat. She dug through the flat panel cabinets, there was nothing but meat sauces and other canned goods in there. That meant she really had to cook, she never had to cook at the Caroni mansion before, one of the chefs would have done that