Challenge Accepted

CASSIA

I let my body sink deeper into the soft mattress, every muscle heavy and boneless, like I had been wrung dry of strength and thought. I didn’t have the energy to move, didn’t even want to. My eyes stayed closed as I lingered in the aftershocks, that gentle, humming warmth still spreading through me, slow and sweet, like waves retreating after a storm.

“You can’t pass out on me, bunny,” he m