Chapter 47: The morning after (1)
Selene stirred around as her body slowly woke to a new day. Her eyes fluttered open, adjusting to the darkness in the room. She immediately froze because of the sight before her.
What she noticed wasn’t that someone had pulled the blinds so there wouldn’t be light let in to bother her. What caught her attention was how close she laid to the man she now had to call her husband.
Selene tried not to panic. If she did then she might wake him and his teasing might be the death of her. Instead of pulling away from him too fast, Selene slowly tried to go back to how they were before when she went to bed with at least an arm’s length of space between them.
What confused Selene even more was her arms hugging Xavier. She couldn’t have been the one who inched closer to him during the night. She wasn’t one to move around in her sleep too much to the point of ending up in his arms.
’If only I could just disappear,’ Selene thought.
Since Xavier might soon notice she was awake, Selene tried again to slowly move her arms around him and find her place back to her side of the bed but her attention was brought to the hand which rested on her lower back. It blocked her escape.
"Running already when you were so clingy last night?’ Xavier asked. He opened his eyes, allowing him to witness the sight he had been waiting for. "Good morning, Selene. Sleep well?"
"I wasn’t clingy. Could you please move your hand?" Selene questioned and pulled her hands away from him so she no longer hugged Xavier. "How did we end up like this?"
"You will need to tell me. I am still on my side of the bed if you haven’t noticed. Look," Xavier loosened his hold so she could see.