BELLE

“What the fuck are you wearing?”

I jumped at the sound of his voice, whirling around to meet the eyes of my mate, who was sitting on the couch in our room. I hadn’t even heard him come in and was surprised he was here.

He was never back this early. I had assumed I would be spending another night by myself.

I had just exited our closet after changing into one of the bikinis Minnie had gotten me. I planned on going to the hot tub for a while. I was incredibly tense.

All I wanted to do was lie back and relax in some nearly-too-hot water for...