Sia had a huge headache. That was the first thing she thought when she woke up. The next thing was that she wasn’t in her bedroom.

Events from the previous night came back to her mind, intensifying the headache she was already having. Groaning, she sat up, surprised to find a blanket draped over her body and herself lying not in the bean bag anymore but on the comfortable sofa in one corner of her work station.

Her face heated up when she remembered how Julian had held her in his strong arms as she cried, how he had made her feel comfortable. She could still feel a tingle in...