Eyes in the Shadows

GIDEON'S POV

Sunlight stabs through the gap in the heavy bedroom curtains. It washes intrusively over the ruined silk sheets, highlighting the tangled mess we made just hours ago. I lie flat on my back, staring blankly at the ceiling. I search my chest for some lingering thrill, some sense of masculine triumph. I find nothing. Just a hollow, crushing disappointment settling deep in my gut.

Besid