I jolted awake with a gasp, my body still tingling from the most vivid erotic dream I'd ever experienced. Every nerve ending felt electrified, hypersensitive to the brush of sheets against my skin. My heart pounded against my ribs as fragments of the dream replayed in vivid detail—Kaelen's hands on my body, his lips against mine, the weight of him between my thighs...
Oh god.
I pressed my palms against my flushed cheeks, mortification washing over me in waves. It had felt so real, so present—not like a fantasy at all but like an actual encounter. The way he had looked at me, touched me, spoken to me...
"Remember this," dream-Kaelen had said. "Remember what it feels like when you stop denying what's between us."
