Chapter 78

• It was a long long time before she came back to any sort of consciousness and then it was only to a drifting, half in and half out form of reality that held her safe and warm, cushioned in a hazy oblivion. She was curled up, lax and sated, against the hard heat of Alessandro’s powerful form, enclosed in his arms, hearing his thudding heart slowly ease into calm under her head, his breathing even out as, like her, he drifted towards sleep.
• ‘You are mine now,’ he muttered, his breath hot against her neck, his lips pressing kisses on her skin with every word. ‘Mine. No one else will ever have you…’
• There is no one else…never has been since the day I met you.