CHASING HIS RUNAWAY MATE
For that moment, I was simply Beatrice Emberlyn—the woman who had clawed and scratched to survive, who had built a life for herself, away from the darkness of her past.
Before Xander.
Into this swirl of feeling and unwritten history.
But reality set in as I put my phone down.
The suite was too quiet now.
I could hear Xander breathing, even, and regular. He wasn’t asleep. I could tell from the effects on his body, little spasms of tension in his arms, occasional shuffles of the blankets as he turned over.
He was awake.
And so was I.
Stuck in this strange neither here nor there, neither one of us wanting to shatter the silence that had formed, but both well aware of the invisible tether growin
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