A Taste of Temptation

POV Valerie.

My eyes snapped open the second my alarm blared in the dark room. It was four in the morning, but I reached out to silence my phone feeling inexplicably refreshed. For the first time in what felt like forever, I had slept like a rock. The usual dark nightmares that plagued my sleep were miraculously gone. Meeting Cassio had shifted something deep inside me. The massive, looming compl