Today was my day off.
A day off from Dallas Diner.
And a day off from that guy.
At least, that’s what I told myself as I stayed curled beneath the scratchy blanket of the inn bed, watching sunlight leak through the thin curtains. My body felt heavy, sluggish, like someone had stolen the charge out of my veins and left me running on fumes.
Rest was supposed to help, but it didn’t. Not when there was this… emptiness inside me. A silence too deep, too wrong. Most people didn’t notice what I carried—or what I didn’t—but I felt it every waking moment.
It clung to me everywhere.
The absence of Kate.
It's funny how I just awakened my wolf, and she's already gone into a deep slumber.
Unreachable. It was like breathing in through one lung.
I pressed my forehead to my knees, willing the wor
