A lie was not deception if she protected her from it and in a few minutes, I could hear her rhythmic and calm breathing going into sleep.
I was in no rush to fall asleep, instead, I enjoyed the darkness being filled by her rhythmic breathing and the sheets warming up with the combined heat of our bodies.
It may have been half an hour since Kristal fell asleep when my eyelids began to weigh on me, my body relaxed with the closeness of his when my phone began to ring.
My eyes snapped open, groaning to myself. Who could it be at this hour? Especially on this phone, which was for personal use, only a handful of people knew the number, among them Sacha, my family, and the Alphas of the packs in my charge, but all of them knew the hours in which it was allowed to contact me without import tim
