Chapter 16

A hard knock on the door had pulled Elise from her sleep; she could barely keep her eyes open, and worse, the pain she was feeling felt like she had been barreled by a heavy boulder.

Elise should have known how much she would have regretted it. Regret the decision to drink so much at the party last night.

Now that her head was aching so bad, she felt like it had been split open, a punishment for her greedy and guilty thoughts from last night with Rygan.

She could still taste him on her skin. She groaned as she rolled out of the gray cotton sheets, her dress draped to the floor while she had slept naked.

She moved to take a robe from resting on an armchair, wrapping it around herself, as she heard Hana’s voice echo from the door. “Elise?”

“I’m awake, I’m awake,” she mumbled as she pushed another lock of hair obstructing her view from the door as she sat down back by the foot of the bed.

The look on Hana’s face was almost comical; she was trying so