At one point during the night she had slept because the following morning she woke up alone in his large bed, with no sign of Xavier.

She sat up straight, arched her arms above her head and tried to untangle the knots in her shoulders. She had been on edge most of last night.

Standing up from the bed, she padded barefoot across the floor and went directly to the closet to retrieve something to wear and proceeded to the bathroom. Proceeding with her morning routine, she finished off by looking ...