The next day, I woke up before my alarm went off.

Just as I stepped out of my room, the doorbell rang. I saw it was Aurora. I shook my head, "Why didn't you just use the fingerprint lock to come in?"

"Well..." Aurora glanced suggestively toward the master bedroom, "Didn't want to interrupt anything between you and your man."

"Interrupt what? He's not even here." I explained, then asked, "Why are you here so early anyway?"

Derek hadn't come back to Fairview last night. ...