KILLIAN POV
I didn’t remember falling asleep.
One moment I was lying next to her, barely daring to breathe too loudly, worried that if I moved wrong, she’d change her mind and send me back to the couch. But she didn’t. She stayed curled on her side, her back to me, wrapped in my blanket, wearing my clothes, completely surrounded by my scent.
And hers.
That sweet floral scent mixed with something deeper, wilder, wrapped around my senses like silk and sank into every part of me. I’d never fallen asleep so quickly. No tossing, no turning. Just peace.
Real, honest peace.
My last thought before I drifted off was that maybe this was what happiness felt like.
But the peace didn’t last.
Something pulled me from sleep.
I didn’t move. Not even a twitch. I kept my eyes shut, breathing even,
