#Chapter 148: Molten Silver

Audrey I woke to the warm sensation of arms around me, holding me gently beneath the covers. A soft smile touched my face as, slowly but surely, the events of last night—and this morning—slowly returned. A party. A fall. A death. And then… My mate. My eyes cracked open, and there he was. I couldn’t help but let out the tiniest sigh of relief at the sight of him, as if he somehow would have disappeared into thin air in the middle of the night. But he was still here, holding me. And he was already awake—watching me sleep. “Isn’t it a bit creepy to watch a girl sleep?” I purred, nuzzling into his chest and nipping good-naturedly at his skin. Edwin let out a deep rumble of a chuckle, one that was made even deeper from sleep. It hit me then that I hadn’t spent a full night with him before; one of us had always left before the other had awoken, or we had had to return to our own residences when we were hiding out in that basement room. I allowed myse