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Forty
Asher
Suddenly, I was dragged back into awareness, my eyes flying open as I scanned our surroundings for the hazard that was lying in wait, but, to my relief, I was left emptyhanded with my hasty search.
The sky was dark, but my powerful senses picked up on the gradual lightening towards the east through the opening at the front of the shelter before my attention was drawn to my mate.
Mari’s thrashing around in the constricted space between Rias and myself was the obvious culprit for what had brought me out of the deep sleep that I’d managed to succumb to, the fatigue finally catching up to me when my shield was at its lowest.
It’d been a while since I had felt secure enough to completely let my guard down, but the odds of something occurring here on our island were so low that they weren’t worth keeping me up all night now that Knox and his cronies were gone. That wasn’t even taking into consideration Rias’s strength and keen senses.
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