No one had ever initiated anything sexually with him before and Rosa would be the first. Self-conscious her, would attempt to seduce someone as handsome and dominant as Axel. The thought gave her butterflies in her tummy.Standing in the lift rosa entered the code Axel had given her for their room and she waited for the doors to open. Stepping into the darkened apartment a small sound caught her attention. she paused and listened closely. Another noise hit her ears and she made her way cautiously to the bedroom door. She pushed the door open and started to let her eyes adjust to the gloom beyond."Axel?" The voice came out of the darkness.Rosa flicked on the lights as anger coursed through her veins. Lisa lay across the top of the sheets. Her green dress from earlier was discarded on the floor and she was stark naked. She had scattered rose petals across the bed and she was idly playing with some of them.She held one of the satin petals in her hands and she drew it across her erect

Darkness ate at her vision. Creeping in around her. Rosa could swear she heard Axel's voice calling her name but it sounded very far away.Darkness claimed her. Her body went limp. The last thought in Rosa's mind was of Axel. She imagined him gathering her into his arms, calling out her name. Begging her not to leave him. Tears seeped out of Rosa's eyes. She wanted to touch his face. Brush the fear and pain from him. But she couldn't. She couldn't fight the darkness and let go. It swallowed her whole. Her one regret was she hadn't told axel that she loved him. She did love him. It had taken her too long to figure it out and now it was too late. She drifted. At least in the dark it didn't hurt anymore.The sound of beeping slowly roused rosa. Her eyes felt heavy, as though they were weighed down with lead. The second she opened her eyes rosa instantly regretted it. Everything about the room was far too bright. The white walls and bed sheets seemed to create a glare that made the poundi

Axel did his best to try and fill in the blanks for her. But without her own memory of that night it was simply him telling her a story. By the third day Rosa was itching to leave. The doctor seemed pleased by her progress but was still a little anxious about her loss of memory caused by the head trauma. The one thing rosa was extremely grateful for was that the headaches had slowly begun to grow further and further apart.The feel of a warm hand brushing gently across her cheek had her stirring. It seemed a little early for Axel to be here. Ever since she had found out about him sleeping on the couch she had insisted he return to the hotel and get some proper sleep. What had finally convinced him was her telling him that he was disturbing her rest.Rosa rolled onto her back and opened her eyes with a smile. The face that stared down at me wasn't Axel but it was very familiar. The curve of his lips and the boyish charm. The way his smile lit up his entire face but failed to reach his

"Are you cold?" Axel picked her up from the floor as though she weighed nothing. All thoughts of Allen disappeared from her mind as axel pressed her close against his body. Rosa knew what his body could do to her—the way he could make her feel with just the touch of his hands. She longed to trace her fingers across his bare chest, to watch the excitement light up his eyes as she followed her fingers with her tongue."Rosa?" she snapped her gaze back to Axel. He still looked concerned but rosa could tell that he knew exactly what she was thinking about. It was as though he could read her mind. With him near her, her thoughts were never her own. Rosa didn't mind, it was comforting to think that the man who held her in his arms knew her well enough to know exactly what she was thinking.Axel carried her back to the bed and set her on the edge. Rosa looked down at her bare feet and it slowly began to sink in that she was still in her hospital gown. No slippers, no robe. It was at that mom

The doctors had been reluctant to just sign her out of their care. Private insurance provided the best possible care but it also meant that the doctors sometimes became over cautious. They had fretted that this morning’s ordeal would cause symptoms that might appear later. Shock had a nasty habit of creeping up on unsuspecting victims. But rosa was ready for it. She knew part of her was still in shock after what had happened. And she had no doubt that the dreams would be truly horrific. The more her memory was jogged into place the more the fear of what was to come tried to paralyse her.She took the pen the nurse offered her and leaned down over the papers on the desk. Her hand began to shake making it impossible to scrawl her signature across the box. She clamped her free hand across her wrist and tried to hold it steady but it was no use. The more she tried to steady her hand the worse the shake became. It spread then, up through her arms and down her torso into her legs.She grip