Gabriel

22. Thursday

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GABRIEL

I wake up very warm. Warmer than usual, causing my eyes to open. I feel the tingles too, so I'm only semi-shocked to look down and find my mate's short figure below me. I'm greeted with wild blonde curls in every direction and tingling sensations throughout my entire body. My arms are wrapped around her waist and her legs intertwined with my own. Her light breathing is the only sign showing that she's even alive since she doesn't even twitch when I shift beside her.

I stare at her beautifully soft and plump lips that I kissed last night. Her rosy cheeks flush with warmth. Her cute little nose.

Oh god, I sound like a creep just watching her while she sleeps.

I turn my head around uncomfortably, making sure my body doesn't move, and check the time. We've still got an hour before her school starts, so quietly as possible, I slip out of bed, making sure not to wake her and walk into the bathroom.

I slip in the shower once I've undressed and turn it all the way to cold, shivering a bit, but it helps. After lying next to her for a while it's been impossible to keep it down. Suddenly, Maeve is standing in front of me in the shower. She giggles at my astonished reaction and places her hands on my chest, moving them up and around to my neck then my face with a confidence she's never showed before.

"Maeve, what are you­–", I start but she shushes me with an index finger to my lips.

"Just relax", she whispers in my ear sensually. I close my eyes and groan as her hands reach my groin, but suddenly the feeling is gone.

I open my eyes to see no one there. I peak outside the fogged glass only to find an empty bathroom. It takes a moment of confusion, but then it clicks.

It's been a little over five weeks since we first met in her dreams, and we still haven't had sex. I don't mind waiting, as long as it takes, or how slowly she wants to move forward with this. But my beast is not that patient. Most mates complete the bond after the first few days. So this type of thing happens when we haven't had sex after a few weeks. First it's hallucinations, so I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing has happened to her already. Next comes the unbearable need, like a burning lust shooting throughout the entire body. And finally, my beast will take over and mate her, willing or not.

I can't let that happen, even if it kills me.

MAEVE

Things are much more regrettable in the morning.

What seemed possible, justified, and even right last night now feels downright embarrassing. Although sleeping next to him caused my need of cutting to go away, now as I stare as his peaceful sleeping form, I find it very, very hard to get out of his arms.

Not only physically, as he has trapped me in a tight cage with his arms throughout the night, but also emotionally. I don't want to let go although I feel embarrassed no matter the look he'll give me when he wakes up. Will he be disgusted at how close my body is to his.

No Maeve, don't think like that, I reprimand myself.

This debate with myself to forcible get out or wait until he wakes is stopped by his eyes fluttering open. I quickly close my own and steady my breathing, chickening out and deciding to sneak out while he showers. I wait of few more minutes, still wrapped comfortably in his arms while he holds me tight. Then I feel him slowly slip out of the bed, lightly step into the bathroom and close the door. Once I hear the shower turn on, I slide out of the bed and quietly exit his room, or so I thought. I'm greeted with longs rows of coats and dress shirts neatly ordered by grayscale. But the other half of the long walk-in closet is empty, fully equipped with shelves, drawers and many more shoe racks than I would ever need. A single bag lies on a shelf up above, too high for my reach. It looks plain, but still, my curiosity is peaked. I'll ask him about it later; the last time I peaked at something of his, it was how I found out about the whole werewolf/angel thing.