For whatever reason it was, Eldridge woke up at dawn but couldn’t bring himself to go back to sleep. Nikita was silently sleeping with most of her body laying on him and there were moments when she’d snore softly that if it wasn’t for his acute senses, he would have missed it. Her lips were parted as she lost herself in her dreams. He had spent all the night watching her, in disbelief that she was really there in his arms. And his heart felt full. In those years that he spent without her, even though he’d have s*x with other women, it was to fulfill his carnal desires that couldn’t be suppressed. And after a night or even days fulfilling those urges, he’d feel empty inside. When he woke up with someone who wasn’t his mate by his side, a hole in his heart grew larger and he’d feel it more a
