Chapter 224

SARA’S POV

Morning arrived quietly.

I’d turned off all my alarms the night before, knowing there was no work to resume to, not when the contract hung in the balance or most likely had been called off already.

The sun shone brightly into my room, filtering through the curtains and settling across the room like it had been there all night, waiting for me to stir awake and see it.

Just like I had done the night before, I lay still for a moment, staring at the ceiling, simply contemplating life on all of its entirety.

My thoughts trailed and dated back to the early days of my marriage, when slow mornings like this just seemed inconceivable for me.

Now I had it, but I didn’t have the joy I thought would accompany it.

From that, my mind drifted to my meeting with Alaric then to my call with Daneille and then the silence from Derek’s end.

I wondered if he thought the same as Alaric. Actually, there was no point thinking that when he had agreed already. The collaboration had unraveled in le