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Chapter nineteen

Friday, at last. I toss in my bed and feel a hard body behind me, I look over my shoulder.
Oh god Jace.
He is sleeping, not peacefully but sleeping all the same. His face is pinched and his fists are clenched. Memories of last night flash through my mind, Jace racing home to me, the text, the phone call that followed, he thought I was leaving him I could tell. The flashbacks and words in my head, oh god I'm so embarrassed. He's going to think I'm crazy, will he tell Izzy?
I'm not tangled up in Jace's arms this morning and I slip from the bed without him stirring. Tip toeing out the room I go to make coffee, and maybe some peanut butter on toast for my man.
I switch off the alarm in the hall and try to stop the flow of embarrassing details from flooding my memory like the morning after a massive drinking session. And just like a hangover the smell of the toast and coffee has me running for the bathroom, as I heave into the toilet bowl I try to remember if I drank that champagne. I remember opening it and the bottle was sitting empty on my counter, the champagne flute empty beside the bath.
Maybe I did?
I wash my face and see my reflection, I look cute in Jace's work shirt and I smile a little.
Trying again with the toast and coffee I manage to get it served up and I sip mine. Moving everything to a tray I take it back to my sleeping boyfriend.
My footsteps wake him this time and he rolls to face the doorway.
"Hey" he mumbles with a smile that looks more like a frown.
"Hey" I blush embarrassed again.
"What's this?" He asks sitting up
"A peace offering, I'm sorry about last night. I really am" I flush and even my toes have turned red.
"Honey no, don't be sorry" Jace says taking the tray and resting it on the end of the bed.
"I feel so bad for making you leave work, Cole is going to be pissed with me" I climb into his lap and he holds the blanket out for me so I can snuggle into his body.
"Cole will get over it, Angel are you okay?" Jace lifts my face to his and kisses me lightly.
"Much better, I can't believe I let you see that"
"Let me see? Angel you were all but catatonic for over an hour before I got to you, you couldn't have done anything to stop me from seeing you. I didn't expect that, I thought you were just upset. I'm sorry it took so long to get home" he rests his forehead against mine and closes his eyes.
"It didn't, I was on the phone to you maybe five minutes before you got me out the bath" I frown.
"No Angel you weren't, the water was freezing"
"I have so many memories in my head I can't make them meet up" I shrug.
"It's okay now, I'm here and you're safe. That's all that matters"
"And I have coffee" I smile and pass Jace his mug.
"Black, no sugar" I boast remembering how he has it, it's the first time I've made it for him.
"Really? I have two sugars honey" he passes it back to me.
"Oh really? I could have swore you said no sugar?" I frown and Jace smiles.
"Gotcha" he teases with a kiss.
"Sexy demon" I grumble and take a sip of my own coffee.
I pass Jace a slice of toast and the smell of the peanut butter gets up my nose making my stomach roll again, I try to ignore it but the needs of my stomach are demanding to be heard.
Launching from the bed I dart into the ensuite without a word and don't even have the time to shut the door behind me.
Oh god I hear Jace behind me as I'm hunched over the bowl heaving. Fuck just shoot me now.
"Honey, not feeling well?" He asks gently with a hand on my back.
"No I'm great, really" I say sarcastically and try not to laugh.
"Oh honey" he sighs crouching beside me.
"God, tell me this isn't happening, my boyfriend is not watching me vomit please!" I rest my head on my arm on the seat.
"It's fine Angel, don't be embarrassed" his voice is gentle and amused.
"That's what I get for drinking a bottle of champagne on a school night, good thing I don't go into work as boss today. That would not go over well, first day and I have a hangover" I groan.
"Beth, you don't have a hangover. You didn't drink last night" his voice sounds funny.
"Yeah I did, I'm sorry it was a gift and I opened it to have in the bath and......" I can't think, I don't even remember how it tasted.
"And you didn't drink it, I poured it down the kitchen sink myself last night. You don't have a hangover Beth" he tells me again biting his lip.
"Then why am I throwing up? Why can't I stomach the smell of food?" I ask as it hits me.
"Beth" Jace says carefully.
"No, it's too soon for that?" I frown "I wouldn't be sick for weeks" I tell him.
"Well we will just have to wait and see won't we" he says with a fucking smile.
"I see you Jace Masters, getting all hopeful. You really want this?" I ask with butterflies.
"Yeah, I kinda really do" he shrugs and I vomit again.
"Please just leave" I groan.
"No way, I'm with you every step of the way honey. I'm never leaving Elizabeth." He tells me rubbing circles into my back.