Over an hour later, she woke up alone. She guessed that meant Zave wasn’t coming back to her. Leaving his bed, against her instinct to stay, she didn’t go snooping, but picked up his discarded shirt and buttoned it up before leaving his lab to seek him out.
Modesty had been lost when she admitted to Bess through the intercom where she’d spent the night. Kindred business was conducted “downstairs” in a place she hadn’t been yet. So she walked into the dining room expecting to find it empty or at the most to see Bess. Instead, she walked into what looked like a full-blown conference.
Bess was here, so was Thad. But they had been joined by Brodie, Zara, and another couple that she didn’t know.
Tugging down her shirt, Devon crossed one leg behind the other. “Oops,” she said.
“I didn’t know
