It was bright when I woke up, my body ached sweetly in all the right places and I loved it. I had slept all through the night and I hadn't woken up once. I was beginning to relax, beginning to actually feel like a queen; I didn't have a ghost haunting me, my empire was in check, I knew Elias was still mine to control, and I had a rich and dangerous man wooing me lik his life depended on it.
I stretched in bed, I remembered the feel of Elias's body, the scent of him, his warmth. I recalled his words last night as he tucked me into bed: "What would you do if I ever disobeyed you?"
And I had been sleepy, I'd replied "I'd kill you, then mourn you."
A part of me wasn't sure it was true, I wasn't sure that I could actually do what I'd said. Elias has become an unyielding presence in my life, was almost a part of me now. He was the anchor that kept me grounded when things came down to shit. I wasn't sure I could ever truly bring myself to kill him.
