Chapter 249 Unreal

• The next morning, Elise woke with a dull ache pulsing through her body and a heaviness clinging to her limbs. Every muscle felt tender, her skin still marked by her husband's touches—passionate, possessive, and lingering.
• As Henry had promised, he hadn’t let her sleep. Not until her body gave out, trembling and limp, and her eyes shut on their own from sheer exhaustion. She didn’t even remember when he stopped—only that she must have passed out while he was still inside her, still moving with that ruthless determination he always wore like a second skin.
• Blinking slowly, she glanced around the sunlit room. Her gaze immediately darted to the space beside her on the bed.