RETH
They woke slowly the next morning. As had happened the day before, the scent of his mate woke Reth with a smile. But this time it was difficult to get his eyes to stay open.
He had struggled for hours to get to sleep, jolting awake every time he started to nod off, his mind and body determined to remind him that she might shift again, or that the baby would come. Then later, alight with some nameless, vague fear that something bad was happening whenever her breathing got quiet, because Elia slept so deeply she barely moved.
After the days they'd had, there was no rest for any part of him while his beautiful mate and child were still at risk. And much as he knew he needed the sleep, allowing it to come when his subconscious was terrified proved challenging.
