Tangled in Sheets

In the quiet stillness of the morning, Alicia stirred, her body instinctively stretching like a satisfied cat, arms reaching above her head as a soft sigh escaped her lips. She wasn't fully awake yet, still lingering in that delicious haze between sleep and consciousness. The warmth surrounding her was so soothing, so utterly comfortable, that for the first time in what felt like days, she had slept without tossing, without waking in the middle of the night. A rare kind of peaceful slumber.

A drowsy smile ghosted over her lips as she nestled deeper into the warmth, inhaling the faint scent of something unfamiliar yet oddly comforting—woodsy, minty, with the faintest trace of something clean, like fresh linen. Not my pillow, her groggy mind noted distantly, but the thought barely registered before something else did.

Her legs… She tried shifting, only to realize they were trapped, tangled in something—no, someone.