Kaian stirred, the faintest groan escaping his lips as his eyes fluttered open. His body felt like it had been trampled by a stampede. Every muscle ached, every bone felt as though it had been hammered into submission, and an exhaustion unlike anything he’d ever known blanketed him. He could barely summon the energy to lift his hand, let alone sit up. Blinking slowly, his mind began to piece together fragments of memories, and with them came a tidal wave of emotions and images that threatened to drown him.
The memories hit him all at once: the intensity of the past twenty-four hours came crashing over him like a tsunami. He remembered the heated passion of the night he had spent with Chiva, their bodies and souls intertwining in a way he’d never experienced before. It had been raw, electr
