Kate's POV
Damian was right about one thing. My body really was exhausted.
Back in the apartment downstairs, the one they'd set up for me during my so-called business trip, I barely made it through a shower before collapsing into bed again.
I couldn't remember ever sleeping this much, not even during the growth spurts of my teenage years.
I tried to reach my wolf. Tried to feel for her in the quiet dark of my mind the way I sometimes did when things felt uncertain.
Silence. As always.
I'd gotten used to her absence by now.
By the time I woke, the sky had turned amber. Dusk. My stomach was hollow with hunger, but there was an interior design draft on my desk that was almost finished. Just a few more touches. I wanted to complete it first.
Before I married Ronald, I'd actually been p
