Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, I woke up to the soft buzz of the city, its lights still glistening like the promise of things I used to believe in. The dull memory of the late hour and the wine I had sipped—more out of anxious habit than thirst—was the throb in my brain. Alexander slept still next to me, breathing steadily, as if our evening together had been just another transaction in his neatly structured universe.However, it had not felt like business at all last night.My bare feet brushed the plush carpeting as I slid out of bed. His warmth and the echo of his flesh on mine were still palpable to my body, and I was not sure whether I should be happy about it or afraid of the vulnerability it brought. My biggest danger had always been to reveal who I was, my secrets, my worries. And yet here I was, unprotected, in the arms of the guy I had foolishly married.Silently, I put on the plain gray dress I had on before. The sheen of silk across my skin was visible even in the
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