GARRETT POV
I didn't know what woke me up because clearly there was no alarm blaring in the room. Or anywhere else. Or my mate snoring softly beside me.
Nope. Nothing.
Then, my arm stretched across the bed and found... nothing.
For a moment my brain was still half asleep, foggy with the kind of lazy warmth that comes from sleeping next to someone you care about, and I just lay there blinking slowly at the ceiling, trying to understand the meaning of life when my brain catched up.
Amaranta wasn’t there.
My hand slid across the sheets again, slower this time, fingers searching the empty space beside me like maybe she had just rolled further away during the night.
Cold.
The mattress had already lost the heat of her body.
Which meant she’d been gone for a while.
Jax lifted his head
