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ELEANOR

It hurts. My head hurts. I groan, slowly turning my body over before prying my eyes open to a blinding light of warm, golden sunlight slipping through the gap of gray black out curtains facing me. I whimper as my body feels like it's been run over by a truck, and I couldn't move a damn muscle. I feel paralyzed and well, like shit. Literally.

My stomach heaves and I close my eyes again for a moment, battling an uninvited nausea as I try to recall what on earth had transpired last night. Even through the shooting pain that sends a throbbing ache all over me, wrapping my body whole like a disease that has infiltrated my blood without much of a warning. My brows furrow as images from last night begin to flood my mind like a massive, rising wave about to splash over me.

"Eleanor..." Alexander's dangerously sexy, husky voice being whispered into my ear was the next thing that that filled my mind momentarily, echoing through my mental walls as I tune in to the seductive tone in h