Chapter 27
June 30
The soft drone of a bee bumping in the corner of the open window didn’t wake him; it was just another pleasantry that soothed the transition from deep slumber to consciousness. It was a sound that went perfectly with the sunlight, the softly swaying curtain and the blissful way his body sunk into the mattress below him. He parted his lips and the sound that followed was a sigh of complete contentment.
“Emmett!” a voice Emmett instantly recognized as Aleyn’s was shouted into the peace and a sudden weight flung alongside him. “Emmett, you’re awake! You slept so long! A whole day and night and now most of this day as well! But I stayed right here with you. Could you tell? And I was rubbing your arms too. The prince said you would be sore and so I rubbed your arms and sho
