My head throbbed as I blinked my eyes open, only to squeeze them shut again when the light stabbed through my skull. My stomach churned, and I shifted in the bed, unsettled by how unfamiliar it felt.
A musky smell I couldn’t place filled the air, and the soft, silky sheets didn’t feel like mine. In fact, the entire bed, pillows, and everything seemed off.
What had happened last night?
I clapped a hand on my forehead, my eyebrows pinching as warm metal cracked me in the skull.
“Ow,” I groaned softly as I forced my eyes to open to slits, peering at my hand.
My eyes widened the second I spotted it.
I pushed myself up onto my side, stretching my trembling hand out in front of me. In the morning sunshine that filtered through the curtains of the unfamiliar room, the diamond on my finger sparkled.
Behind it, a silver band.
I swallowed hard, my lower lip trembling as tears burned my eyes. I glanced around, the room unfamiliar.
The bed shifted under me, a man’s groan splitting the silence.
