Each day since Rose had left the city, Alec had been marking off the calendar. While her absence had hurt him terribly, he wanted to keep a track of how much that minx had made him wait. Once she did return, he had every intention of making her pay for putting him through the misery of going through so many days without her.

　　Today being a Sunday, he had been at home and unlike every other day, he had decided to just be lazy and stay in bed all day. Lying down at the exact ...