HAYDEN
The office door opens without a knock. I look up from the contract I've been pretending to read for the last twenty minutes. I’d kept it unlocked just for her. And there she is—
Shit.
Eden is shaking.
Her eyes are wide, her pupils dilated, and her cheeks are flushed from the cold or fear or both. Her coat is still on, her hair wind-whipped across her face.
I'm on my feet before I register moving. The chair scrapes back hard.
"Eden—"
She doesn't speak. She just crosses the room in three fast steps and crashes into me.
My arms close around her automatically, I bury my face in her hair, breathing her in.
She's shaking so badly, it alarms me.
"Hey," I murmur, one hand cradling the back of her head, the other rubbing slow circles between her shoulder blades. "Hey, baby. I've go
