Chapter 41: Daisy

##Chapter 41: Daisy

I jolt awake as a muscular body slides beneath the sheets. My eyes pop open and I find Carter's face hovering above mine.

"Hey," he says gruffly.

The sound of his voice plucks something deep inside me before reverberating through my body. I reach out to touch him before remembering that I spent the afternoon hanging around the apartment, waiting for him to return so we could talk.

But he never showed. This is the first I'm seeing of him.

My hand falls back to the mattress.

Could I have shot him a text to make sure everything was okay?

Yeah, but there was no way I was doing that.

The bottom line is that Carter and I aren't together. He's not my boyfriend. I'm not his girlfriend. He doesn't owe me any explanations. The situation between us is casual and neither of us have pushed for more than him slipping into my room at night to screw.

Not only does that thought hurt my heart, but it solidifies everything inside me. Even though he's just woken me from a deep