Chapter 39

Abby

I woke warm.

For a few seconds, that was all I noticed.

Then I realized I had slept.

Actually slept.

No cave. No silver cuffs. No waking in the dark with my heart racing.

Just a slow heartbeat beneath my ear and an arm around my waist.

I opened my eyes.

Kade was still asleep.

My cheek rested against his chest, one hand curled between us. Sometime during the night, I had apparently abandoned every inch of space we had left between us.

Diana stirred, sending a wave of ridiculous satisfaction through me.

Are you purring?

No.

She absolutely was.

I stayed where I was.

That was probably the first problem.

The second was how much I liked it.

Kade’s warmth. His scent around me. The steady rise and fall of his chest beneath my cheek.

I had slept better than I had since the kidnapping.

Kade looked different asleep. Younger somehow. Without the usual tensi