Chapter 40

Eliana POV

It was the best sleep I'd had in years, and I told myself that it was because I was no longer worried about Elijah. I refused to acknowledge that it might be because I'd had the most mind blowing sex I could ever dream about.

I pulled myself out of bed, wincing slightly at the tenderness between my thighs.

“The price we pay,” Ayla sighed in my mind and I wanted to slap her.

“It's not like you're feeling this. You could have made me stop, you know,” I grumbled back.

I was rewarded by her wolfy smirk which told me she definitely could have stopped the whole thing, but chose not to.

“Arg! How am I going to face him now?”

“The same way you always do. Head high. You have nothing to be ashamed of.”

I guessed she was right. I hadn't done anything wrong, and I wasn't going to act like I had.

Knocking on the bathroom door before I entered, I locked the door leading to Luca's bedroom before I went through the paces of my morning routine. I could hear soft snores coming from Luc