#CHAPTER 79: Working Together

XADEN POV When I woke up that morning, I was completely and utterly alone. Maeve’s delectable, sweet scent, which had been so potent when I went to sleep, was resorted to little more than a gentle waft in the morning breeze. With a groan, I let myself wake up, my eyes fluttering open. Soft beams of the morning sunlight shone through the windows, basking the bedroom with the golden-red glow of the rising dawn. The spot next to me, where she slept mere hours prior, was empty. All that remained was the indentation her body left in the mattress. Instantly, I got a jarring sense of deja vu. The last time I experienced anything remotely similar to this was the morning after we first slept together. Back then, we were still perfect strangers with no real belief of ever seeing each other again. Now, after how tightly wound we’d become, it was more than a little unsettling. But this was nothing like that first morning. She was here. I could feel it deep in my soul. I just had to find h