Kate's POV
The night crawled past.
I didn't sleep through a single minute of it.
After Darius asked me to wait until morning to leave, I went back to my room and ran through every step of the bedtime routine that usually softened me. Hot shower. Body cream. Pajamas that smelled faintly of lavender. By the time I slid under the covers, I should have been melting into the mattress.
Instead I stared at the ceiling.
All three Voss brothers were still in the apartment.
I couldn't catch a single word of what they were saying in the living room. They kept their voices low, careful, almost surgical. But I didn't need words. I could feel them.
Three distinct scents threaded through the air, and my body sorted them on its own. Darius. Damian. Damon. Each one was a separate current dragging un
