Ariel woke up in the middle of the night. She looked beside her and felt empty. Yes, Dylan was not there, even though he'd slept by her side the night before. But that was at the beach house, where they didn't have separate rooms.

Ariel pushed herself off the bed. She had gotten so used to having Dylan by her side when she woke up at the apartment and the boat house that she forgot they usually stayed in different rooms at the mansion, their main home.

Yeah, they were back at the mansion, and everything was like before. It had been a week since they'd returned, and Dylan had...