Chapter 79: Solace
I could only hear the sound of my shaky breathing and my heartbeat. With each breath I took my body became colder but thanks to Dace’s warmth I was getting okay and impossibly warm. My body still aches like I held a rock to my body but in all that I couldn’t concentrate on that pain but Dace’s hand gently rubbing against my waist in a curve pattern, my shirt was lifted slightly and his warm hand rubbing my bare skin, giving me a kiss of his warm skin.
I felt alleviation and I felt cozy, I didn’t want any of this to end and I didn’t wanna think about what happened or anything else, I just wanna be here with him, in this silence, just the two of us, laying against the bed and facing each other, I was enjoying the quietness and the amenity we found, it was calm and his company was everything, just him being here was enough to melt the cold away.
"How are you feeling?" he asked in that baritone voice of his, finally breaking the long silence, I don’t know how long we have been in this position, I knew long enough but still it wasn’t sufficient.
"Hey" he gently stroked my cheek, giving me more hotness from his body. How could he produce so much heat?
"You’re so warm" I found my voice, closing my eyes and conveying more into that heat of his, it felt like a flame in close proximity with me.
A smile uncovered his lips. "Part of being a werelion" he ran his finger to my hair, thrusting them backward.
"We produce heat, it’s almost like a part of us, we are warm-blooded"
"Produce heat? That’s not normal" I mumbled under my breath and he chortled slightly.
"I’m not normal Emma"
His words were like a reminder and I suddenly felt guilty about my choice of words. "S-Sorry, I didn’t mean it that way"
"Hey, it’s okay, that’s not the problem right now," I noticed the colors in his eyes shifted.