Ella & Alexander Ella Golden sunlight was streaming through the bedroom windows when I woke, warming my bare skin where the sheet had slipped down. For a moment, I just laid there, smiling like a fool, my body pleasantly sore in places that had never ached before. A wave of something that I could only describe as an aftershock of arousal rushed through me, starting from my groin and radiating outward. Instinctively, I reached out, expecting Alexander to be laying beside me. The last thing I remembered was his warm body flush against mine before I had fallen into the sweetest sleep I’d had in years. But my hand met cool, neatly made sheets. I cracked my eyes open against the bright sunlight and saw that he was gone. And then the memories from last night came rushing ba