Zarek.
I woke with a vicious, throbbing pain pounding behind my eyes, a headache so heavy it felt like someone had lodged a stone inside my skull and was hammering against it from within.
Every pulse dragged the memories of last night back into the front of my mind—every touch, every whisper, every fevered second that had tangled itself around me like a snare I didn’t know how to escape.
“Valti—”
The name started to slip out of my mouth, raw and desperate, but it died halfway down my throat.
Because the moment my eyes opened fully and adjusted to the dim morning light filtering into the room, I realized who was actually lying beside me.
Danika.
Not Valtira.
Not my mate.
Not the woman whose scent had filled my dreams and my pulse last night.
Danika.
My entire body went cold whil
