#Chapter 75: Disappointment

Ella & Alexander Ella Golden sunlight was streaming through the bedroom windows when I woke, warming my bare skin where the sheet had slipped down. For a moment, I just laid there, smiling like a fool, my body pleasantly sore in places that had never ached before. A wave of something that I could only describe as an aftershock of arousal rushed through me, starting from my groin and radiating outward. Instinctively, I reached out, expecting Alexander to be laying beside me. The last thing I remembered was his warm body flush against mine before I had fallen into the sweetest sleep I’d had in years. But my hand met cool, neatly made sheets. I cracked my eyes open against the bright sunlight and saw that he was gone. And then the memories from last night came rushing back. First came the pleasure of our first time together, but then came… My hand flew to my throat. Nothing was there. Just smooth, unmarked skin where his fangs should have left