Chapter 64

Silvia I woke to golden light filtering through Alpha Sherman's penthouse windows, my body wonderfully sore in ways I'd never experienced before. For a moment, I kept my eyes closed, savoring the memories of last night that flooded my mind. [Six times.] Heat flooded my cheeks as I recalled how my body had surrendered completely to Alpha Sherman. Before him, intimacy had always been... functional. Something I'd approached like a task to be completed with Zack. Clinical. Predictable. Alpha Sherman had shown me something entirely different—something primal and scorching that left me trembling. "I love you, Silvia." His words echoed in my mind, making my heart stutter. I'd been too overwhelmed in the moment to respond. After Zack's betrayal, those three words felt dangerous, like a trap waiting to spring shut. Could I really say them back? Did I even know what love was supposed to feel like? My thoughts drifted to all our "firsts" together—bent over his office desk, pressed against the mar