A Gilded Awakening

Vivienne’s POV

Waking up felt like floating.

I didn’t even open my eyes at first. I just lay there, wrapped in the kind of sheets that felt like they were spun from clouds. The air smelled faintly of lavender and something expensive I couldn’t name, and for a second, just a second, I wondered if I’d been dropped into one of those overly-filtered romance movies where people wake up smiling and alre