*Anna*

I hardly slept at all.

Sitting at a table in the gardens, reflecting on the tossing and turning and tangled mess of my sheets when I have finally arisen from my bed, all I can surmise is that my body had been in need of … fulfillment is the word that came to mind. It is as though spending so much time in the company of Kai Tempest had wound up my feminine yearnings until they felt a need to explode like a host of fireworks.

Guilt surges through me because I can’t seem to stop thinking about him. I shouldn’t have gone to see him, shouldn’t have allowed...