Was she dead?
Of course she wasn’t; she had moved a couple of times in her sleep, and he checked. She was still breathing.
But why didn’t she wake up despite all the noise he made while getting ready to go to work? Some were even deliberate.
Hunter couldn’t look away as he watched Aria all cuddled up under the blanket.
Her shiny red hair was spread dreamily on the pillow, with some strands laying across her face. She looked like a baby; she was cuddled up in a ball that he wondered if she was still cold.
He had covered her with another layer of blanket earlier, thinking she was cold, but she pushed it off her and went back to sleep, after muttering unintelligible words.
He stared at her from the chair across the room in his bedroom, wondering to himself why he couldn’t bring hims
