Every Night She Sleepwalked to Him—Until He Pretended No More Chapter 01

Every Night She Sleepwalked to Him—Until He Pretended No More Chapter 01

I have a dissociative sleep disorder that sometimes causes me to sleepwalk. Every morning, I wake up with swollen lips.

When I opened the bathroom door, I saw a mark on the neck of the man I lived with.

Then translucent captions began drifting across my field of vision.

[The hapless minor character sleepwalks into the love interest’s room every night and kisses him.]

[He resisted at first, but she gets so aggressive in her sleep that she even managed to thaw his frozen heart.]

[The obsessive love interest is about to meet the gorgeous, aloof woman he has been dating online. He is only using the minor character for kissing practice.]

That night, I was kissing Ethan Carter in my sleep when I suddenly woke up.

I released him and started to turn away.

He opened his burning eyes and said hoarsely, “Keep going.”

• • •

When awareness returned, Ethan had me locked in his arms. His unfocused gaze rested on my lips with fierce possessiveness, as if he were staring at a dessert he desperately wanted to taste. But he did not move. He seemed to be waiting for me to make the first move.

My wrists were tied with a ribbon, leaving me unable to move. More captions flashed past.

[The minor character is trying to seduce the obsessive love interest again.]

[Rachel Summers blushes just talking to her icy landlord during the day, but look how bold she gets after midnight.]

[I seriously doubt she is really sleepwalking.]

[Rachel is quietly pretty, but Claire Bennett—the story’s dazzling main character—is in another league.]

[She could chase Ethan forever and still never land a man like him.]

[That is why she pretends to sleepwalk into his room every night and climbs all over him. So calculating.]

[I want to slap her for Claire.]