Rhett
I desperately needed sleep but hesitated to leave the office. If I kept finding busy work, I didn’t have to think about the trial. But after falling asleep at my desk, I had given in. I fumbled for the door handle in the dark, trying to be quiet.
People were sleeping around the pack house, and guilt was like bile in my mouth. I get to go sleep in a bed, while they sleep on the floor. Just a few hours of sleep, then I’ll get back to work.
I slid through the door and shut it behind me. My eyes snapped open, and I straightened, scanning the dining room. The room was lit, but that wasn’t what woke me up.
Hugo’s scent filled the house, and the hair on the back of neck stood on end. I listened, trying to hear where he could be. But all I heard was Pepper snoring upstairs, and Lily’s ge
