Chapter 56 - Evelyn

I awoke the next morning, cosy and warm in my bed, but I was terrified to find a heavy pressure upon my chest. My heart was pounding, as I struggled to open my sleepy eyes. It was only as I had eventually pried my sleepy eyes open that I realised Cayden was laid next to me in bed. The heavy pressure I felt was the weight of him half laid across my chest, his arm slung across me… I had no clue how he had ended up laid like that, he could not be comfortable, surely? Yet, that is how he was laid, and that is how he was sleeping.

How had I forgotten he was in bed with me? My new mate. That had to be one of the best night’s sleep I have ever had. Until he had decided to try to smother me with his weight, of course... Being snuggled up against him, tight within his arms had felt so good. I felt safe and I felt secure there, like I belonged. A feeling I had not felt since being a child. I did not want that feeling to end. Though, I have to say, right now, he was crushing me und