Abbey’s Point of ViewThe first thing I noticed when I woke was the bed. A real bed.It had been so long since I felt one beneath me. Ever since the attack, I hadn’t laid down on anything softer than a carpet spread across hard floors, and even that had been a luxury compared to the ground I’d grown used to. This—this silk sheet tangled around me, this pillow under my head, this suffocating heat wrapped like a cocoon—was unfamiliar. Strange. A comfort and a burden at the same time.The warmth radiating from it was unreal.My body tensed on instinct, every nerve alert, before memory slipped back into place: where I was, and more importantly, who I was with. Slowly, carefully, I turned in the bed, trying not to stir the man lying next to me.Jeremy.Last night had blurred together, exhaustion pulling me under almost the second my head hit the pillow. I remembered little more than climbing in, limbs heavy, and surrendering to sleep. Now, with dawn—or whatever time it was—creeping in unse
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