Chapter 84 Absolute

***Hazel***

Sleep comes for me like something cautious at first.

I don’t mean to fall asleep.

I’m aware of Gideon beside me, the steady weight of his arm at my waist, the slow rise and fall of his chest. I’m aware that I am in his bed. My boss’s bed. In his house. In the center of a life that is nothing like the one I thought I would have a month ago.

It should feel wrong.

It should feel reckless.