Ellie
I didn’t remember falling asleep or how I got back to the hotel. It was the first morning I had woken up in my room since the second or third night of my trip.
It was also the first night that nothing had happened and that I had woken up alone.
A knock at my door pulled me out of bed more than the sun or my alarm. I guessed I needed the sleep, and I couldn’t even begin to express how relieved I was to get an extra day in before Danny arrived.
“Good morning,” Annette beamed, looking me up and down.
“Morning,” I smiled back, opening the door further to let her in. “I was just getting ready to jump in a shower. I’ll just be five minutes, then we can grab Anton and head out.”
I vaguely remembered agreeing to take them out first thing that morning when I got the news that Tom h
