ARIA POV
When I woke, I was in bed.
For a few seconds, I didn’t know where I was.
The room was dark except for the moonlight slipping through the curtains, silver across the floor, across the unfamiliar furniture, across someone’s bare back as he opened the door.
My body reacted before my mind did.
Crescent Moon.
The scent was everywhere.
In the cushions.
In the sheets.
In the walls.
Under the soap on my skin.
My heart slammed against my ribs, and Kara surged forward so violently my nails dug into the mattress.
No.
No, no, no.
For one horrible second, I wasn’t in a guest room.
I was back in that apartment.
Jasper’s hand at my lower back.
Chloe’s perfume in the hallway.
His mother’s smile across the dinner table.
My own voice saying I was fine while something inside me cu
