Chapter 55

My chest does a funny little squeeze, and I almost lose my breath at the thought that maybe she tried to escape out the window after all. Tucking my towel around my hips, I sneak down the hall and press my ear to her door. When they say "lovesick," they've got it right, because this is an illness I can't seem to shake.

I can't hear anything but deep breathing, so she must be asleep. But I have to know for sure, have to see with my own eyes that she's here, in our home. Slowly, I turn the door handle to her room. It doesn't make a sound

as it unlatches. I open the door and wait for a shoe to be thrown at me or maybe one of the kitchen knives. When she doesn't hurl anything my way, I step into the bedroom I set up just for her, knowing she'd want her own space.

"Luna," I whisper in the darkness, turning over the beautiful word in my mouth, my fingers curling against the urge to touch her soft skin, to make sure she's real.