The Morning Escape

~Raina~

Kaelen had gone downstairs.

I lay in his bed and stared at the ceiling and thought about everything I had done in the last twelve hours and felt the quiet weight of a woman who had made decisions she could not unmake.

I should have said no.

At every point — when he led me upstairs from the dinner table, when he came back in different clothes and told me to stay, when he stepped into the sh