ANNELISE POV It was finally weekend and a rainy one. The distant laughter I heard woke me up, my head fuzzy and my eyes still heavy from sleeping. My eyes turned to the wall clock as I hissed at the time, it was 11am, rain makes me tired and sleepy. I pulled the duvet to cover my body as I shut my eyes to sleep back. The laughter came again, the sleepiness cleared off my eyes as realization hit me… Cassius wasn’t in bed with me, and we had a guest who I totally didn’t trust in the house. I kicked off the duvet and slipped out of the bed, I shoved my feet into my fur slippers and hurried out of the bedroom. Vespera was seated next to Cassius as he worked, and she seemed to understand what he was doing on the laptop, she was pitching in opinions which he seemed to agree with. My heart tig

