Wake up, sleepyhead."

I felt a gentle hand tapping my shoulder. When I opened my eyes, I noticed Ashton looking down at me with a warm smile on his face. He was holding something in his hands that he had hidden behind his back, and upon seeing it, I gasped in surprise. He had removed the handcuffs that were restraining me!

“You’re free now,” Ashton said softly as he helped me up from the bed. “And I’m happy to report that you are clean; the bite has not affected you.”

“I-I do?”

I couldn’t believe what he was telling me! I had been so scared before, thinking that Brayden had...