ZORA

It was the following day and I was still embarrassed to the bones.

I screamed into the pillows again, my screams muffling against it.

Nope!

I climbed off the bed and entered the bathroom desperate to focus on anything else but my frustration.

The scent of jasmine that took all over the bath area did nothing to calm the knots getting tighter by the second in my tummy.

Also, I was finally leaving the palace walls but not alone, of course.

Earlier, Ryker had come into my bedroom way before the first light of the day, when sleep was still very much in my eyes, and I was nothing...