Sweet Exhaustion

Clara

When I wake, my body is filled with the most exquisite soreness.

My hand immediately leaps to my neck, where Thorne’s mark is seared into my skin. Being claimed was the most intense experience of my life, and it feels remarkably as though Thorne and I are no longer separate people, but two halves of the same whole. His big body is wrapped around me as he dozes, and I’m amazed to realize I c