GIDEON
She fell asleep before we reached the freeway.
One moment she was sitting beside me, her shoulder against mine, her hands wrapped around each other in her lap.
The next, her head had dropped sideways and found my shoulder, and her breathing had changed into the slow, unguarded rhythm of someone who had simply run out of the energy to stay awake.
I moved carefully. Shifted until she was lying across the backseat with her head in my lap, her knees drawn up slightly. She didn’t wake. Just made a small sound and settled deeper.
I put one hand on her hair and couldn’t help but keep it there.
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The freeway was quiet at this hour. Kael drove without speaking, which I was grateful for. The city lights moved past the windows in slow pulses and I sat in the dark with my mate’s hair un
