Cassie’s POV.
The loud ringing startled me awake as my hand shot out blindly toward the noise, reaching for my phone on the bedside table. Ugh. It was Sandy, of course. But as I blinked the sleep from my eyes, what actually caught my attention wasn’t her name, but the date flashing on the screen.
'Sunday.' Thank God, I felt the liberty of just.. resting.
I groaned, dropping the phone back onto the mattress, and rolled over, pulling the sheets over my head. I had zero plans of waking up anytime soon. After everything that happened last night, every muscle in my body was aching and humming from a kind of exhaustion that was... new.
But just as I was slipping back into the warmth of sleep, the door creaked open. I peeked out from under the sheets and sat up quickly as Daelan strolled in
