The First Day of Training

Kaelie violently tossed and turned in the sprawling guest bed, the heavy silk sheets tangling tightly around her thrashing legs. Her exhausted mind was relentlessly plagued by obsessive, looping thoughts of the ball. She stared blankly up at the dark, vaulted ceiling, a dull ache throbbing in her chest as she repeatedly asked herself the same agonizing question: *If Cyrus truly wanted me as desper