The Art of Breaking

~RAFAEL’S POV~

She lay motionless on the mattress, her frame sunken beneath the heavy silk sheets. The white cotton bandage wrapped her right foot tight, propped against a bolster to keep the swelling down. Her lips were dark, split and swollen from the pressure of my mouth hours before. The pale morning light cut through the heavy drapery, illuminating the dust motes in the quiet room and showin