Chapter 12
Bastien
It was the first time she slept over and we didn’t f**k.
She got into bed without taking off her makeup and snuggled into me, her leg hiked over my hip, her arm around my neck, using me as a body pillow. Sadness still throbbed in her eyes, and that was probably why she was able to drift off to sleep so easily.
My sleep schedule was all over the place and I wasn’t tired, so I watched her for a while, the lights from the Eiffel Tower appearing in the crack between the curtains. At some point in her sleep, she turned the other way, facing her nightstand where her phone sat.
I left the bed and stepped into the sitting room, shutting the door behind me until it was just open a crack. I went to my desk and opened my laptop, going through emails and the mail that Gerard ha
