The Last Sunrise

KAELEN'S POV

The last night on the island.

He was awake before she was — he was always awake before she was, the runner's metabolism, the pre-dawn alertness that had been his since twenty-two and showed no signs of changing. But this morning he did not run.

He lay in Beatrix's bed and looked at the dark water through the window and thought about nothing in particular, which was something he had be