Chapter 135

As soon as Alizeh felt a caress on her cheek, she woke up with a startle. The touch was featherlight, yet it landed like a thunderclap on her skin. She has been on high alert the day she came into this house. She never really had a peaceful sleep for past several weeks.

Her chest heaving up and down. She was a heavy sleeper. There could be bomb blasts happening around her but she wouldn’t wake up but since the day he had entered her life, she has never fully slept, without a worry.

Her body reacted before her mind could catch up. Her limbs moved on their own, instinct overriding thought. Her fingers curled into the sheets, knuckles whitening as she struggled to place where she was. The room was dim, quiet, almost peaceful, yet her heart thudded as if it were being chased. Each beat was a hammer striking against her ribs from the inside. Every breath felt shallow, scraped from her lungs with effort. Sleep no longer came to her gently. It ambushed her, fractured and incomp