Chapter 86
Morning Confusion
(Maya’s POV)
Sunlight filtered through the curtains, warm and blinding. I blinked a few times, disoriented. The bed beneath me was too soft, too big, too wrong.
Then I felt it, an arm draped across my hip.
My breath caught.
For a second, I didn’t move. My mind raced to make sense of where I was, what had happened. And then the memories hit me. The engagement party. The fight. Axel dragging me here. Jamie asleep in his new room.
And me. Crawling into this bed because I was too tired and too angry to argue anymore.
I turned my head slowly. Axel lay behind me, his face calm, his breathing steady. His arm was heavy across my waist, pinning me in place. His bare chest pressed against my back, his skin warm against mine.
I froze.
My heart began to hammer in
