Olivia's POV
I woke to the slow, deliberate sweep of fingers trailing across my back. A soft smile tugged at my lips as I instinctively tightened my arms around the broad chest beneath me.
But something felt… different.
Levi always carried the rich, heady scent of aged whiskey and rain. But the man holding me now didn't smell like that. His scent was calmer, yet no less consuming… a warm blend of vanilla and jasmine that curled into my senses and settled deep.
I didn't need to open my eyes to know who it was.
"Louis," I whispered, my voice still husky from sleep, a big smile spreading across my face. Slowly, I opened my eyes and met his gaze.
He was lying beneath me, one arm draped protectively around my waist, the other tracing slow, deliberate patterns along my bare back. His deep brown eyes locked with mine, and the air between us shifted—instantly thick, charged. That magnetic pull, that inescapable gravity of the mate bond, wrapped around us like invisible chains.