CH.117

Serena stirred the following the day.

Her eyelids felt heavy as she slowly blinked awake.

Every inch of her body ached as if she'd been run over by a fleet of semi-trucks, then backed over a few times and then finally tossed off a cliff for good measure.

She groaned softly, feeling utterly wrecked and battered, her muscles screaming in protest at even the slightest movement.

As awareness seeped in, she realized her head was pillowed on a warm, solid surface that rose and fell with steady breaths.

Knox!

Her petite form was dwarfed by his huge one while she lay sprawled across his tattooed chest.

He was like a mountain, and she, a delicate vine clinging to his rugged slopes.

His masculine scent surrounded her like a sensual embrace, both comforting and vaguely intimidating.

Trying to shift positions, even just an inch, sent a jolt of searing pain lancing through her from head to toe. It was concentrated most intensely in her lower abdomen and a strangled cry that sounde