Hope woke up again around three in the afternoon.

“Seriously? How is it this late already? Didn’t I set my alarm for nine?”

She clearly remembered setting it last night when she got back from Greencliff Square.

But after being woken up by Penelope gossiping about morning drama, she’d decided to close her eyes “for just a few more minutes”… and well, here she was.

When she reached for her alarm clock, she found a sticky note pinned under it:

‘Hope, I turned off your alarm. Sleep in a little.’

It was Easton’s handwriting.

He was going to spoil her into becoming a total sleepyhead at this rate.

After washing...