Chapter 68

Madison exhaled slowly, raking her fingers through her hair in exhaustion.

She stifled a yawn that threatened to escape her lips by covering it with her fist, and then she sighed deeply. She wasn't sure why she had awakened all of a sudden, but it didn't put her at ease.

The last thing she wanted to do was think. She just wanted to have a long sleep… long enough to drown out all those thoughts, but now she couldn't go back to sleep.

No matter how hard she tried to, her mind kept going back to the call with Damien. 

To say she was in shock would be an understatement. Madison wasn't even sure how she felt about all of it. The things he had said, the way he was acting… she didn't know what to make of it.

From his apology, the things he had said to her, and for the first time since she had met him again, he had spoken to her without a trace of anger in his voice.

He even seemed genuine, and to Madison, that wasn't something she could