Adrian's POV
I slept for three hours. Three full, uninterrupted hours—something that hadn't happened in months.
When I woke, Lina was still asleep beside me, her breathing soft against my chest. The scent of rain-washed jasmine wrapped around me, and for a moment I just watched her. The dark lashes against her cheeks. The slight part of her lips.
Then those lashes fluttered open.
"Can't sleep too much during the day," she mumbled, voice thick with drowsiness. "Or I'll be up all night. Mm... what time is it?"
"Eleven."
"Do you need to go out?"
"No. Tell me what you want to eat. I'll make it."
She considered this, fingers tracing idle patterns on my chest. The touch chased away the shadows that always clung to my thoughts. "Alpha Storm, if you've really finished all
