ETHAN POV
I checked the time again.
Then again.
Then once more, just to be sure I wasn’t imagining it.
She was awake.
I could feel it.
Not in some dramatic, lightning-strike, bond-snapping way, but in something quieter, subtler, like a thread that had been slack a moment ago pulling just a little tighter, like something inside me had shifted from waiting to aware without asking for permission.
Yeah.
She was up.
I barely heard what Alpha Stan was saying at that point, something about patrol rotations and territory lines and the usual pack logistics that normally would have had my full attention, but right now my brain was already somewhere else, already back in the apartment, already picturing her moving through the space, probably pissed off, probably pretending she wasn’t affecte
