Serena sat at her desk, staring at the contracts she had prepared for Nathan. The ink was still fresh and the pages were neatly stacked. Serena had immersed herself in her tasks to avoid thinking about the events of the previous night. She was glad to be in her "normality", away from the wolf house, her new home that she had only adapted to poorly, and away from Nathan, from whom she would prefer to escape so as not to have to deal with the feelings he triggered in her.

Nathan hadn't been in the office all day, and she wondered if she would even see him today. Her eyes...