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He hung his head before lifting it. “I actually requested it. I wanted to see your beauty in the light of the rising sun. I wanted to watch you sleep, just drink in all that I could of you today. But you’re awake, my queen. Didn’t you sleep at all?”
I shrugged. “My brain is shouting too loudly.”
He got onto the bed after shucking all of his clothing and beckoned me closer. “Come and get some rest.”
I was tired, so tired that I began to have a twitchy stomach, and my eyes were burning. “Arne, I don’t know if I can.”
He cocked his head a little and looked at me with such love and care it melted me from head to toe. “If you can’t rest in the arms of your mate, where can you rest?”
Ugh, these mates and their constantly making valid points.
“I’ll try.”
The second my weary body fell into Arne’s embrace, it was all over but the snoring. I let out one long breath and laid my head on his chest while he stroked my hair.
Sleep took me despite my protests and wanting to be awake with my mate.
