By Design

POV: VALERIE

I woke up long before the sun.

The heavy dark of the luxurious hotel suite pressed around me. For a fleeting second, the silence felt disorienting. Then the rush of memories crashed over me. The wild extravagance of the party. The degrading spectacle inside the glass room. The ruthless transaction I had forged in blood and grief.

Roman.

I rolled over on the massive mattress and