KATLYN
The darkness lost its grip on my mind in slow increments. I slowly became aware of myself and my surroundings. And the intoxicating spicy scent with a hint of sandalwood that I hated for liking desire everything, even now I savored it for a second before I realized what it meant. And it was what had me going rigid as my guards went up, and at the same time I felt the hard muscled body beneath mine and how I was embraced in strong arms that held me like they could save me from the world and beyond. What a lie.
“Are you okay?” His deep voice travelled through me and I closed my eyes, only to reopen them as everything that happened in the kitchen came back to me in vivid details, slamming into me and hurting me like a fatal blow.
The disrespectful words he had hurled at me, my break
