My Alpha Lost Me To The Lycan King
Elise
I woke in my own bed for the first time in what felt like an entire lifetime, sunlight spilling warm and ordinary through gauzy curtains, and for one blessed, disoriented moment, I let myself believe the entire endless night had simply been an exhausted, fevered dream.
Then I registered Alaric's hand still wrapped around mine, his exhausted, watchful presence in the chair beside my bed, and remembered everything at once—the shadow unraveling into a grieving, nameless man, the Warden's stunned silence, the courtyard finally settling into something like peace after hours upon hours of impossible crisis.