The baby soft bedding is wrapped around me like a cotton cloud, the entire world shaded the rosy pink of my eyelids. I feel better rested than I have for years—since before I started college, I’m sure. Every cell in my body feels rejuvenated, lusciously relaxed. I cuddle closer into the warm, solid embrace that cradles me, hoping this moment goes on forever...Until my mind catches up with my body and wakes up with a jolt. My eyes spring open, landing first on the heavily inked, thickly corded arms that are wrapped tightly around my almost-naked body. I wrench my neck around to find the sleeping features of Devlin resting on the pillow beside me. Alarm crashes through my barely-awake body, and I let out a shrill yelp of distress. Scrambling out of bed, I struggle to remember where it is, exactly, that I am.The room around me is cavernous and elegant in its modern simplicity. The walls are painted a deep, rusty red, the furniture and floor made of wide, smooth wooden planks. A sprawling king bed is positioned against the wall, fitted with the finest Egyptian cotton.
