NATALIA I woke up early to start my day with the hope that it would be a little easier for me. I don’t really have a lot of hope, but not seeing Tristan beside me immediately made me crash out with random thoughts and worries… Until I heard him downstairs in the kitchen, I made my way towards it, feeling a sense of deja vu, as this had happened before. I couldn’t see what he was doing as his back was turned away from my view, but he certainly hadn’t noticed me yet. “Uhh, alpha?” I called reluctantly, not wanting to interrupt him, but also curious about what he was doing already at 5:30 a.m. He flinched and slowly turned to me, holding a bag of takeout he was about to plate. Tristan looked like I had just caught him doing a heinous crime. “You weren’t supposed to be up. Was I too loud?

