Chapter 70. Newfound Trust

BELLE

My body was tingling with warmth and happiness when I woke up late in the morning the next day.

I smiled and stretched my stiff arms over my head, giggling when I felt the soreness between my legs.

Then I reached over to the other side of the bed for my mate, hoping to crawl on top of him and nuzzle my face into his warm neck.

But I didn’t find him next to me. Instead, my hand fell onto cold, empty sheets.

I immediately sat up, my heart racing in my chest.

“Grayson?” I called out into the dark room. My gaze fell to the windows, noticing that it was nighttime. Had I slept through the entire next day? No wonder I felt so rested.

But if this bitch really left me all by myself the morning after our first time together… I was about ready to explode out of the bed and hunt him down to beat his ass.

And then I saw him.

Grayson was sitting in a chair he had pulled up to the side of the bed, staring at me.

He was leaning forwa