Azriel wasn’t there for dinner. I ate a late meal with Rosita. We cooked together and had barbequed chicken burgers and salads on the patio and we both floated around on tubes in the pool after dinner. Then I went up to bed early, exhausted physically and exhausted emotionally although I’d certainly slept a lot the night before.
I woke up to him climbing in bed with me in the dark. I didn’t know what time it was but he didn’t initiate s*x. He just curled up against me, wrapped his arms around me protectively, and kissed under my earlobe, and was snoring softly into my hair a few breaths later.
Azriel’s POV
I crawled in bed fully prepared to yank her night clothes off her and remind her of rule number 3 but the minute my nose caught a whiff of her hair and warm skin, which smelled like
