MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
Chapter fourty— Morning After
Mara woke up warm again.
She was starting to expect it now.
The specific warmth of the bond settled low in her chest like something that had finally found the right temperature and had no intention of changing it.
She opened her eyes.
Grey morning light.
Caius was not beside her.
She sat up.
His side of the bed was empty but still warm which meant recently.
She looked at the window.
He was there.
Standing at the window in the grey morning light with his shirt untucked and his hair not yet fixed and his hands in his pockets looking at the mountain.
She watched him for a moment.
At the back of his head.
At the shoulders that carried everything and had learned somewhere between Ironveil and a mountain clearing to carry it dif
