Dominic's POV"Two weeks," I said quietly to the dark ceiling.I was not even speaking to wake her. I actually had to say it, as I wanted to clarify a few things to myself before dawn, when the saying clarified something that thinking alone had left blurred.Scarlett breathed evenly beside me, her wolf settled against mine through the bond, warm, present, completely without urgency. I lay still and let the morning gather itself slowly outside the window, the dark not yet ready to give way, the room holding its quiet.I counted things.And I didn't do that anxiously, but with the intentional focus of a man calculating what was worth calculating, each item given its full weight before moving on to the next, just the way I held things when I finally understood their value.The warmth of her against my side.The mate bond, settled now into something as natural as breathing, no longer a thing I noticed separately from breathing itself, simply part of the architecture of being alive.The pa
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