Chapter 26The next morning, Henley woke with a start, sitting up in bed. Confused, and groggy, he looked over at the empty space next to him. “Mason?” he asked right away, jerking the blanket off his legs and grabbing his pajama pants from off the floor. After he’d slipped those on, he hurried out into the hall.
Ciccio and Fortuna were in the living room, on their couch, and as Henley entered the room, they both looked up at him with tipped heads. Ciccio jumped off the couch and greeted him with a few licks. “Hey, boy,” Henley said, his voice jumping. There was a fire going in the mantle. The cabin was nice and toasty. He picked up the sweater from off the couch and quickly pulled that over his naked chest. Slippers were next. Better. Much better.
Heart thundering, he checked the large l
