C27 Twenty Seven

Dani remained wide awake past midnight.

Perhaps it was the time difference, but even as fatigue from the jet lag left a heaviness in her body, she couldn’t fall asleep.

It was deathly quiet in the entire suite. Faint moonlight streamed through the window, allowing her to observe the gilded ceiling above her. There were no doors to her or Alexei’s bedroom; only a corridor that separated them