Honest Questions

>>Aelin

I glanced down.

Bare skin.

My bare skin!!

My breath hitched, my sluggish mind instantly snapping into full awareness. The blanket pooled around my waist, and beneath it—nothing.

A sharp jolt of panic shot through me.

I looked lower, my heart slamming against my ribs as the horrifying realization dawned. I was completely naked.

Heat rushed to my face, spreading down my neck and shoulders like fire. My fingers trembled as I clutched the blanket, yanking it up to cover myself.

What… what is happening? Draegon stood at the side of the bed, holding my discarded clothes in his hands.

His expression was unreadable, his purple eyes unreadable as they flickered over me for the briefest second before he turned his back to me.

!?!

The silence in the room was suffocating.