Chapter 46: The Morning After

(Aaron POV)

The next morning, I woke up with a stiff neck and Cassie’s head awkwardly slumped on my shoulder. It was both the worst and best sleep that I had had in a while.

Cassie woke up a few minutes after me. After a few moments, I saw her look at me with horror in her eyes.

“Cassie, stop.”

“Stop what?”

“Doing that thing you do.”

“What thing?”

“I see the wheels in your brain churning. You think and overthink and overthink some more until whatever you are thinking about becomes something that you did wrong.”

“You don’t know that that is what I am doing. How could you possibly know what is going on in my head? Besides, I just woke up.”

I raised an eyebrow at her. “It’s true that I haven’t known you for that long, but… tell me that I’m wrong.”

Cassie looked at me, completely silent.

I smirked. “Told you. So what is it that you are blaming yourself for this time?”

Cassie looked down at her hands. “Last night, you told me the story about your mate and your mother. I turned it i