Heavy with a threatening slumber, Abby's eyelids began to fall over her eyes. She'd been laying in bed, trying to read one of the books you'd left on the nightstand, waiting up for you to return from patrol.

Thirty minutes of waiting had turned into an hour. An hour into two. You were two hours late from your expected arrival. Abby would've been more concerned if not for the fact she was completely exhausted.

When the door shut, her eyes flipped open, her whole body jerking. "Babe!"