Semua Bab The Alpha Rejected His Bride For Me: Bab 171 - Bab 172

(Theo POV)I did not sleep.I lay on the bed in the back room in the dark with the work jacket folded on the chair in the corner and the sounds of Curtis's house settling around me, the creak of the old boards and the wind through the gap under the back door and the distant sound of Jake moving around in the kitchen before he went to wherever he slept, and I lay on top of the covers with my boots still on and looked at the ceiling and waited for the night to end.At some point I must have gone under because when I opened my eyes the light coming under the back room door was different, the grey-blue of early morning rather than the amber of the kitchen lamp, and I sat up and my neck was stiff on the left side and my mouth was dry and I sat on the edge of the bed in the grey light and put my hands on my knees and looked at the floor.