Chapter 322 : Regrets and Reflections

*Lauren*

I blinked awake and took in the room that washed in a soft glow of morning light. For a heartbeat, my mind was completely empty, unaware of the reason behind the warmth of my skin or the tangle of sheets around me. But as I began to really wake up, so did the memories—the feeling of hands roaming everywhere, whispers against my neck, and the taste of salt on my lips.

Lucas.

"God, what did I do?" I murmured to the emptiness beside me, my voice lost in the sheets that lay all around me.

With each pulse of my heart, bits of the previous night pieced themselves together, forming a picture of last night's recklessness and highlighting a passion that now seemed foreign in the quiet of morning hours. The sun's rays danced across my skin, igniting trails where his touch had been, and I shivered, not from cold but from a confusion that knotted within me.