MALIKA’S POV
My eyes felt really heavy, I struggled to force them open. It was morning and my body was aching. That’s weird, my bed is usually perfectly comfortable. I looked around and remembered I wasn’t in my bed; in fact, I wasn’t in any bed.
I was lying on the floor next to the one-way glass in the Baihu’s enclosure’s attached unit. I turned my head to the glass and came face to face with a sleeping Tiger.
He was purring in his sleep. I smile, he must have curled up next to the window after I fell asleep. It makes me so happy that he is feeling the mate bond.
I stretch and my joints sound like a box of rice bubbles ‘snap, crackle, pop.’ The bright blue eyes snap open next to me and he tenses. He starts sniffing and finally relaxes before he stretches too.
He would look terrif
