Chapter 28
(Cameron POV)
I watch, dumbfounded, as Lenora gets up off me like she didn't just completely rearrange the tectonic plates of my entire existence.
She's already pulling her shorts back on—what's left of them, anyway—brushing dirt from her thighs like we didn't just have what I can only describe as the most feral, soul-shattering experience of my life.
She doesn't even look winded.
Meanwhile, I'm still flat on the forest floor, pants halfway down my legs, staring up at the canopy like I've just had a spiritual awakening. A bird chirps somewhere overhead. It feels mocking.
"What the hell," I mutter under my breath.
Lenora glances over her shoulder, her silver hair catching the light like a halo. "You okay?"
I blink. Am I okay?
I sit up slowly, brushing leaves off my ass and trying to piece together a sentence that doesn't sound like I've forgotten how to speak.
"You just—" I gesture vaguely at the tree, the air, my very exposed lower half. "—you attacked me."
