Chapter 25

Cassandra allowed herself to breathe easily only when the door of her room was locked behind her. Her eyes were wide with fear, shock, and one more emotion that sent her pulse racing wilder than then others.

Excitement.

Ah, shit, she had been excited.

How exactly could she put it without sounding like some masochist? Angry that Hypnos had been avoiding her in the past two days, she had decided to take matters into her own hands and confront him. Before she had left her room some thirty minutes ago, she had paced the entire length of it for a good one hour before deciding to give in to the urge. The urge to see him.

Oh, she was shameless. She knew that. Seeking a man out first because she couldn’t fucking keep still. But what else could she have done? She ached to see him. It didn’t make sense that he gave glimpses of things that made her body tingle and yearn like a damn wanton. It was pure torture.

But nothing, absolutely nothing, had prepared her to s