Semua Bab His Bride By Force: Bab 1 - Bab 5

ALEXA Like a drowning person, I gasped, jolting awake in bed. My eyes darted around the large unfamiliar room, my heart rate spiking. I could still hear the echoes of gunshots from my dream, the hair on the back of my neck prickling.I groaned, pressing the heel of my palm against my eye socket. My head felt as though I'd just smashed it against a rock. Gods, I hate hangovers. Drinking last night was definitely a mistake. One I shouldn't have made.Speaking of last night...The last thing I remembered was the stranger's piercing blue eyes. Merely thinking about them made me ache in ways I couldn't explain.Did I sleep with him? I wondered, reaching for the white sheets to push them off my body.My eyes bulged in their sockets when I saw that I was only wearing a white long-sleeved shirt that definitely belonged to a man. And judging from the delicious scent oozing from it, it belonged to..."Killian!" I blurted out, stumbling out of bed. Cursing under my breath, I felt around

KILLIAN She stirred. Her lashes fluttered like she was trying to blink away a nightmare, but the real one was sitting in a chair across the room, watching her.Alexa.It would take a while getting used to not calling her Seraphina, her original name.She looked small in my bed, wrapped in the pristine sheets, her body bandaged and bruised. But not broken. Not yet.That part comes later.Her breathing quickened. Pain must've caught up with her, because the moment she tried to move, she gasped, reaching instinctively for her shoulder, wincing hard.Good. Let her feel it.She needed to remember that pain.Her eyes snapped open and found me.I was still dressed in my black shirt which was stained with blood from shielding her. The bleeding wound soaking the fabric near my side had dried, but it throbbed relentlessly. I hadn't treated it.Not because I couldn't.But because I'd been too caught up with the view before me.She stared. "You're bleeding.""So are you," I said calmly, sippi