Shattered Crystal

Marcella

I came awake suddenly. Something had disturbed me: what was it? a noise? A touch?

I opened my eyes and almost screamed.

Cassian stood a little away from me. The charcoal grey suit he was wearing was slightly rumpled as though he had dressed in a hurry. His pristine white shirt was open at the throat, revealing his neck, that tanned throat, and the hint of his hirsute chest that I had cudd