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.

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

a night of

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

just hours ago. The secret felt heavier than ever. Liar, a little voice in the

was already gone. His side of the bed was cold, the sheets neatly tucked. Always the early riser. It used

showered in too–hot water, almost as

reflected a woman I barely recognized anymore, a woman who I hadn’t seen in a


below, in the pit of my stomach, there was still a pleasant emptiness lingering–like a weight had been lifted off of me. My inner thighs still seemed to burn’with the sensation of his touch, my knees blissfully weak

nights

my office, I tried to focus on the tasks ahead. Luna duties, paperwork,

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back to him, to the

didn’t think so; it

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