The Imposter in my bed
He tracks the rapid rise and fall of my chest beneath the thin white cotton of my nightgown, and his blue eyes darken to the color of a midnight ocean.
We are ten feet apart, but it feels like inches.
The seriousness between us is a physical, undeniable force, pulling the oxygen straight out of my lungs.
'Leave,' my brain screams. 'Run. Turn around and run.'
Instead, I am frozen. Caught in the tractor beam of whatever this is. Alexander takes a slow, agonizing step forward.
"Please don't," I whisper, the word barely a breath.
He stops.
His hands clench into fists at his sides, his knuckles turning stark white, as if he is physically, violently restraining himself from crossing the room and t
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