Chapter 15I locked my bedroom door and leaned against it, phone still glowing with Alexander’s last message. The house had gone quiet again, but my body buzzed with leftover adrenaline from the library. Sleep felt impossible, yet exhaustion pulled at me like an anchor. I changed into my thinnest silk nightdress, the fabric whispering over my heated skin, and crawled under the covers.The poetry book lay open on the nightstand, but I didn’t reach for it. Instead, I closed my eyes and tried to think of safe things campus lectures, my half-finished manuscript, anything but the man sleeping down the hall with my mother.Sleep came eventually, deep and restless.In the dream, I was back in the library, but the lights were lower, the air thicker with the scent of sandalwood and whiskey. Alexander stood behind me at the desk, his tall frame pressing close without quite touching. His breath ghosted over my neck.“Little girl,” he growled, voice rough with need. “You’ve been teasing me for da
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