Chapter 44

Imogen

I wake, stretch out in the bed, and open my eyes. Firstly, I am confused as to why I’m not in my room back home at my folk’s house, then I remember the delicious evening I had with Cody and the movie in bed and that I was already nodding off before we had got to the half way mark. What a lightweight.

Beside me the bed is empty, my heart drops I know he has left already for his flight. The early morning light is already flooding the room, since the blinds are never drawn in the bedroom. Why do they need to be when his house is privately situated right on the lake with private frontage? Atlas lives across the lake, and you can’t see in to each other’s houses.

I check my time on my mobile and shit it’s already five past seven. I need to get up, shower, sort out some breakfast although I can pick something up from the diner and a coffee to go. Mom is meeting me at the restaurant at half eight to discuss the canapes and desserts for the opening night. I groan, I really wanted to be