Eli woke alone.
For a moment this didn’t concern him. He’d slept in the same bedroom since he was a child, so it took his brain a moment to catch up on itself and remember that he’d fallen asleep with a warm weight against his chest and arms, and cupping Rob’s thigh between his knees.
The warmth was most definitely gone.
Yawning, Eli slid out of bed and rummaged for his jeans. What the hell, maybe Rob had decided to finish his little break-and-enter, aggravated-burglary game by nicking one of Eli’s things and climbing back out the window, or however he’d gotten in.
The sky was a deep grey as Eli crept downstairs. The house was silent as the grave. He leisurely wandered through the living room en route to the kitchen to rummage through the treats drawer Mum kept for Flora and steal a ch
