Chapter Twenty Six

LUCY

"You traitor!"

Those words jolted me back to life.

I felt a sharp pain on my side as I lifted myself from the bed, the environment was unfamiliar to me. The last thing I remembered was passing out in the woods after I was injured by Cade's men.

"Shit!!” I exclaimed.

Cade's men must've reported the situation to him and my mother was probably in trouble right now.

"Where was I?" I asked myself as I looked around. A familiar figure was asleep close to me, it was a shirtless masculine figure whose head was buried on the bed.

I tried to get out of bed without waking him up but I failed. He woke up at the slightest sound and held me down before I got off the bed.

"Stay, you're still hurt," he said. It was Chris and I was in his chambers.

"What am I doing here? How did I get here?" I asked.

"I brought you here, you were injured and needed to be taken care of," he explained.

"Thank you," I said, my gaze fixed on his bare chest. I swallowed hard as I fought the urge growing inside m