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GAVRAEL

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After eating, I could see that Adaira was tired. I convinced her to sleep for a while. She needed the rest to recuperate. I stayed in the room till she was sound asleep, and because I couldn’t resist being close to her, I slid into the bed next to her. Waiting till she fell asleep till I did this was a cowardly move, but I didn’t mind using it. If she had been awake, she may have sent me away, refused to let me sleep beside her. Or she may not have cared if I had done so. Somehow, I didn’t know which I hated most, her rejection, or her nonchalance. The fact that she didn’t stir as I wrapped my arm around her was proof of how exhausted she really was. I stayed awake for a while, just watching the rise and fall of her chest as she breathed, absorbing her warmth and sharing mine with her, listening to the soothing rhythm of her heart beating, basically just to remind myself that she was alive and she was here with me.

Those days she was gone, I felt like I was running mad, not