Serena, You're Back

A raw, strangled gasp ripped through the heavy silence of the bedroom.

"Serena!"

Declan lurched upright against the headboard, dragging air into his lungs like a drowning man breaking the surface of water. His palm pressed flat over his collarbone, feeling the frantic, ragged slam of his ribs while sweat dripped down the side of his jaw.

He reached blindly across the nightstand, his knuckles kn