Natalia
I woke up slowly and languidly, my cheek warming beneath the morning sun filtering through the tall infirmary windows. The first thing I noticed aside from that buttery sunlight was a solid, familiar warmth pressed against my side and the steady rise and fall of breathing that wasn’t my own.
Andrei.
My cheeks flushed as memories from the night before instantly came flooding back. The way he’d looked at me in the moonlight, the feeling of his hands on my skin, the soft words we’d whispered to each other in the darkness.
After five years apart, we’d finally been together the way we were meant to be. Not desperate and hurried like the night of the banquet or during the full moon, but slow and tender and… perfect.
I shifted slightly, careful not to wake him, and found myself face
