Chapter 43

Chapter 43

When I woke up the next morning, I felt refreshed and full of energy. I quietly sat up on the bed taking care not to wake Arnou, then I realized the figure beside me was a pillow, not Arnou.

I was surprised because it was still pretty early in the morning and his side of the bed was cold so he must have been gone awhile.

I would have taught he didn’t sleep on the bed at all but when I rolled over in the middle of the night, I felt his chest and he had put his hand around my waist.

I came down from the bed and wrapped myself in Arnou’s oversize cloak that was hanging behind his door.

The weather was cold because it was still early in the morning, and the cloak provided me with much-needed warmth.

I slipped out of the bedroom into the waiting area. Arnou’s chambers were just as beautiful as the High-Luna’s own. I looked around maybe he was reading in one of the other rooms in his chambers but he wasn’t. His study didn’t even look disturbed.

I went to the door of his chambers,