I did say I would wait for him. I did promise myself that I won’t be too sleepy. But watching out the window, as the sky went black and the stars lit up like light bulbs, the evening ceremony of the shooting stars almost put me to sleep. I had little strength to keep my eyes open. Not even the light of the moon could make me resist the coat of sleepiness around me. It was way too hard.
“Where is he?”
I muttered under my breath.
Maybe he meant that he’d come for me tomorrow? Giving up on keeping my eyes open, I stood from the sofa and made my way across the room. The house was already asleep, as it was late in the night. I was certain that Valerius still wasn’t out of his study, that the meeting wasn’t done. There was awareness in me that kept me assured that my mate hasn’t moved from t
