Chapter 0269

Hannah

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I awoke with a start, the warm sun against my cheek doing little to quell my sudden jolt. The white sheets against my skin felt soft and warm but unfamiliar, and for a moment, panic gripped me.

This wasn’t my bed. These pillows, though plush and stuffed with down, weren’t mine. The curtains hanging from the windows were sheet, not thick and heavy with velvet and tassels.

And then it hit me.

Slowly, memories of the previous night trickled back. The gala, the nightmare, and then… Noah.

My cheeks flushed as I remembered the way he had carried me up the stairs, the feel of his lips on mine, the heat of his body against my flesh. His taut muscles as he moved above me. His long fingers gripping the headboard. His tousled hair falling into his eyes.

My name on his lips.

the pillows, indicating that he had only just recently left the room, although I

the wake of a night of

confusion. What had I done? This was only going to make things more complicated between us. We were supposed to be getting

hand unconsciously drifted to my stomach, where our child was growing–still unbeknownst to Noah, even though we had made love just hours ago.

up, making sure that Noah really was already gone. His side of the bed was cold, the sheets neatly tucked. Always the early riser. It used to drive me insane back when

showered in too–hot water, almost as if it would wash away what we had done the night before,

of my blouse. The mirror reflected a woman I barely


off of me. My inner thighs still seemed to burn’with the sensation of

intimacy nights in… Well, I couldn’t even remember. A long

tried to focus on the tasks ahead.

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Chapter 0269

drifting back to him, to the way he had touched me, the way his green eyes grew husky and his eyelids drooped as he looked at

the entire time? I didn’t think so;

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