#Chapter 87 The Difference a Day Makes

Mira The honeymoon period ended before it even began. While we hadn’t planned a trip or vacation or anything just yet, I had expected that we might take at least one day to ourselves after the Mate ceremony. So much had been leading up to my trial and the wedding, that we both deserved some time alone together with no plans or responsibilities to fulfill. But then Celeste returned, and my plans crumbled to dust. I could at least be thankful that Dominic and I had had our time together in the woods, consummating our union and sharing the intimacy that we both longed for. In my fantasy we would have kept sharing that intimacy for another twenty-four hours in the privacy of our own apartment, but that was not going to be the case. My heart almost mutinied against logic when I woke up and he wasn’t next to me in bed. “Dominic?” I called out, half awake and the day already off to a rough start. “Good morning!” He sounded chipper as he poked his head out from the bathroo