CHAPTER TWENTY SIX
**Oliver West**
My alarm bell sounded and I quickly snapped it shut with a swipe of my hand, then I cursed. If it broke like the last one, Mom would bury me alive. It wasn't as though I got a wink of sleep last night. Each time I closed my eyes, those forbidden scenes from yesterday just kept replaying themselves in my head.
I tried countless times to convince myself that it hadn't been real. Kieran couldn't have kissed me. It had all happened in my head, but the fact that I had agreed to be his puppet couldn't have also been fake.
My nerves thrummed nervously. My heart gave wild kicks each time the memories of those intense metallic gray eyes kicked in.
The way his lips had felt against mine…
Stop it! I screamed at my inward self.
I refused to think more about it or I might just lose whatever sanity I had left.
