The sheets felt like sandpaper against my hyper-sensitized skin.
I rolled onto my left side, tangled the heavy comforter between my knees, and buried my face into a pillow, trying to force my erratic heart rate down into something resembling sleep.
It was useless. Every nerve ending from my hips down was screaming with the lingering, unfulfilled heat Diego had left coiled in my gut.
'He brought me to the edge, kissed my nose, and casually strolled away,' I reminded myself bitterly, staring wide-eyed at the shadows dancing across the bedroom ceiling. 'How does he keep doing this, for goodness sake?!'
'Because you’re an idiot.' Nyx flopped down dramatically in the center of my subconscious, resting her paws over her snout and letting out an exasperated, wolfish groan.
'I'm not an i***t
