MARIA POV
I woke up slowly, the soft warmth of my blanket wrapped around me, but it wasn’t the blanket that was making me feel secure. It was the two bodies pressed against me, Dax on my left and Henry on my right, their arms around me like they couldn’t bear to let me go. My skin was still bare, the soft heat of their bodies against mine making me feel like I was floating in some sort of blissful, hazy dream.
I groaned softly, stretching slightly, trying to escape the comfortable prison of their embrace. The morning light streamed in through the window, but it didn’t feel like a good morning. Not today.
I couldn’t shake the weight in my chest. Today could go one of two ways—everything could fall into place, or we could end up losing everything. And I knew that this mission, getting
