  &quot;Hey beautiful, how was your morning?&quot; Colton slides up behind me and wraps his arms around my shoulder, kissing me on the back of the head before nuzzling in close and calming all my anxious energy with one touch. My grounding force that enables me to set my worries free and I almost melt into a warm puddle of soft limbs. It s in these reunion moments I realize how badly I miss him all day when we aren t together.
  &quot;Interesting. Carmen sought me out, long story, but I sent your mom to go visit with Tawna a while. She s not doing so good, and we thought it might help. I haven t had much else to do today except eat, wander the village, be lavished with a ton of gifts I get every time they see me and felt the need to have a nap. I m so tired today and I have no idea why.&quot; I curl my arms over his and sink back, nestling my head in the crook of his throat and sigh heav

  With him it s never ten minutes, ever, so quickie is not even a term I connect to what he wants to do. Quick for Colton is more like thirty minutes. No daytime rolls upstairs mean tonight he will take hours to get his fill. Not that I m complaining, I just really need sleep at some point in my life. Lately it s taking its toll and I m tired all the time because he has a severe lack of needing rest it seems, while I definitely do not get enough. 
  &quot;We ll see&quot; I yawn almost to emphasize the fact that I m shattered beyond belief these past weeks and he frowns at me, watching me for a long second. His expression dropping from cute teen teasing his girl, to suddenly mature husband worrying that his wife really needs to lay down.
  &quot;Maybe I might let you have a night off to rest. You look kinda beat. Are you feeling okay?&quot; he lifts the back of his palm to my head in seri

  'I m sorry I ever doubted you as Luna…. as worthy. For everything I said or did. He broke me. I was in pain. It was juvenile and I m over it.&quot; She states coldly, icily harsh in her tone as though overcompensating for the weakness she showed me moments before. In that flash the old bitchy looking, aloof, and haughty Carmen. stands in place of the lost and vulnerable soul of seconds before, trivializing her love of my mate once upon a time ago, but this time I see through it.
  A broken hearted, lonely girl, who lost someone she loved, was left to fend alone in a home she no longer recognized and still harbors a world of agony deep inside. As much as I look back and feel like she once deserved my anger, I don t think she does anymore. 
  Carmen s adrift, with no anchor. Her home is gone, her mate went to another, her father s a betrayer of all she knew and her mother…. slowly slippi

&quot;Hey beautiful, how was your morning?&quot; Colton slides up behind me and wraps his arms around my shoulder, kissing me on the back of the head before nuzzling in close and calming all my anxious energy with one touch. My grounding force that enables me to set my worries free and I almost melt into a warm puddle of soft limbs. It s in these reunion moments I realize how badly I miss him all day when we aren t together.
  &quot;Interesting. Carmen sought me out, long story, but I sent your mom to go visit with Tawna a while. She s not doing so good, and we thought it might help. I haven t had much else to do today except eat, wander the village, be lavished with a ton of gifts I get every time they see me and felt the need to have a nap. I m so tired today and I have no idea why.&quot; I curl my arms over his and sink back, nestling my head in the crook of his throat and sigh heavily, closing my eyes as I submerge into my own personal heavenly space. Colton s familiar seductive m

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