Chapter 018CECILIAI woke up before him.That had never happened before. Every morning since we arrived, he was already up and moving before I opened my eyes, already dressed, already somewhere else in the packhouse doing whatever Alphas did before the rest of the world caught up with them.But this morning he was still there still asleep and right beside me.I lay still for a moment, watching the ceiling, telling myself to get up. My body did not listen. Slowly, against my better judgement, I turned my head.Oh.He was lying on his back with one arm thrown above his head, chest rising and falling in the slow steady rhythm of deep sleep. His long dark hair was loose and tangled, strands of it scattered across his face, curling slightly at the ends, and without the guard he wore every waking hour his features were completely open and soft in a way I had never seen them.He looks young.That was the thought that hit me first and I did not know what to do with it. In every room, in ever
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