Nowhere to Hide

~Raina~

My body was a map of ache.

I woke up slowly, the cold morning light cutting through the heavy drapes of my bedroom to cast long, slate-grey shadows across the floor. As I tried to sit up, a sharp, direct wave of soreness radiated from my hips down through my thighs. The skin on my waist carried the dark, deep-purple prints of Kaelen's fingers from three in the morning, a physical reminder