Avalyn

"Ava, Love? I'm back." Nik slipped in through our bedroom door.

I almost thought he wouldn't come back tonight.

After completion of my work, I came back from the pack house and took Nik's dinner to his office. I forced him to take a fifteen minute break and have dinner with me. He told me that he still had a couple of things he needed to get done before tonight.

And that couple of things kept him in the office till mid night.

"Are you asleep?" He asked. "I'm sorry I'm late."

When he walked closer to me, I threw the cover off me and shot my hand out,...