AZRAEL
It's not the first time a concubine desperate to spend the night has snuck in to tempt me, but it will be one of the many firsts that I will send her away.
Fed up, I raise the sheets of my bed, prepared to send them away on the pretense of not being in the mood for anything.
Rather than the face of anyone else in the entire world, Valoria stares back at me, waving the second they're lifted.
"Hi," she whispers softly like a tiny mouse caught stealing cheese.
I blink twice and then again just to be sure my fatigue and obsession with her doesn't have me hallucinating. But no matter how many times I blink, she's still here.
"What the fuck?" I half yell, staring back at her.
She's wrapped within the sheets like her little nest while dressed in the tiniest off-white lace nightie, staring back at me wide-eyed and smiling nervously.
I'm different shades of confused and speechless.
"What are you doing here, hiding underneath the sheets?"
