Midnight came and went.Ethan didn't.Once, that would have kept Elena awake until dawn.She would have lain in bed replaying everything, looking for what she'd done wrong, waiting for the bond to tell her he was on his way home.Tonight she slept fine.Maybe letting go of someone who was never really yours is its own kind of rest....He came back in the morning.She woke to the sound of him in the kitchen.She found him with his sleeves pushed up, reheating the venison she'd cooked the night before.All of it.Every dish, still arranged on the table like she'd left it."I'll stay with you today," he said, not looking up."Make up for last night."He tasted a piece of the venison off the serving fork."Good," he said. "You've gotten better."She looked at him.Ethan never ate leftovers.It was one of his things — fresh kills only, food prepared the same day.The fact that he was standing here reheating yesterday's meal and calling it a gesture told her everything about how seriously h
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