Gemma
I slipped from Ernest's bed, quiet as a mouse. He rolled onto his side and wrapped his arms around his pillow, barely waking as he moved and quickly fell back to sleep, his eyelashes fluttering against his cheeks.
I reached down and gathered my clothes, clutching them to my naked chest as I searched in vain for my underwear in the darkened room.
The only light was an eerie green glow coming from the windows where rain hammered against the side of the castle. Thunder boomed in the low-lying clouds, the sound strangely comforting as I pulled my shirt over my head and shimmied into my skirt. The storm raging outside the castle walls had covered the sounds of pure ecstasy coming from the Alpha's quarters, and I felt deliciously exposed as I snuck from the room, carrying my shoes in on
