Essence gave a sleepy stretch, her entire body curling up, her body shaking with the movement, as she woke from a deep slumber. A husky laugh drew her from the depths of her rest, and she swivelled her head swiftly to look at the man lounging beside her on the bed. “Adorable.” She stared at the man sitting next to her on the bed, his laptop on his lap, a pillow propped behind his back as he watched her stretching. She was unable to speak as she racked her brain trying to recall how she moved from the chair where she watched a movie to the bed. She was snuggled up under a thick blanket and a big pillow under her head. His comment filtered through, and she wrinkled her nose. “What?” “Adorable. The way you stretch. You’ve always done this whole-body stretching thing where it almost looks