Chapter 23

Tea's POV

Jesse fell asleep around two AM. He snored on my bed, snuggled up with his book, and it was kind of adorable.

Kind of.

I was too jealous of him to find it completely adorable.

Thanks to the second cup of coffee he made me twenty minutes before he crashed, I managed to stay up all night, and made a dent in the load of makeup work.

I nudged him awake ten minutes before it was time to go. He disappeared into the bathroom for a one-minute shower and came back smelling like river rocks and manliness that I probably shouldn't have been attracted to, but was.

He disappeared down the stairs while I finished shoving my stuff into my backpack. The wolf in me threatened to surface with his absence, but I was so tired that she too seemed sluggish.

When I landed at the bottom of the stairs, Jesse was waiting with two travel cups of coffee and a set of keys.

He handed me the coffee, and his hand met my lower back as he guided me out the ga