Chapter 18Cade didn’t know what the aftermath of a girl’s night out was supposed to look like, but he wouldn’t have thought it would look like this. Tess hadn’t shown up at the gym, so he told Nick to meet him here to see what was going on. He’d been a little concerned but had managed to avoid all out panic by reminding himself that she had been out with her friends last night and had gotten in late. There was no way he was going to acknowledge the fact that he’d expected her to text him when she got home. That was too clingy for his conscious brain to handle. He let himself into her house. Truth was he spent more time at her place than his lately and last night, sleeping in his own bed alone, had felt alien. Wasn’t that a kick in the ass? He looked into the family room and did a double

