Chapter 54

Cassidy’s POV

It was Monday morning, and I was completely drained.

Not in the way that sleep could fix. My legs worked. My eyes were open. I was upright. But mentally? Ryker had wrung me out like a towel over the past twenty-four hours.

Ever since that morning, he’d hovered around me like some absurdly persistent nursemaid with too much energy and zero boundaries. It had been nonstop.

“Are you war