Until the End by Ward Tracey

Author:Ward, Tracey [Ward, Tracey]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2013-07-13T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

When I wake up the following morning, I know immediately, even before I’ve opened my eyes, that we shifted during the night. I fell asleep with his front on my back, his body heat chasing the chills away, and this morning my front is pressed firmly to his. I can feel an arm draped across my hip and another one tucked under my head. Our legs are intertwined, one on top of the other, and I am acutely aware of his thigh pressed up high between my legs. When I finally open my eyes, I see one of my hands pressed against his chest and when I do an inventory of my limbs, I find the other hand on his back, my arm draped across his waist much as his is across my hip.

“Um.”

I’m not really sure where I’m going with that, but I feel like this one utterance fully encompasses my confusion. Don’t get me wrong; waking up in the arms of a good looking guy is not such a bad thing. The rise and fall of his chest under my palm, the weight of his arm on my body and the pressure of his chin on the top of my head as it cocoons me against him are all the single greatest feelings I’ve experienced in a long time. Even before the end of the world. So no, it’s not a bad thing to be here like this with him. It is, however, a very confusing thing.

“Shhh.” he hushes me. “It’s still early. I heard them on the jet skis and they’re actually patrolling this time. Can’t go outside.” He yawns and his chest presses against me as it fills with air. “May as well go back to sleep.”

“No more jousting?” I ask, and my voice sounds falsely jovial, even to me.

“Not this morning.”

“What was the final score?”

I’m stalling, trying to think of a polite way to get out of this embrace we’ve twisted ourselves into. I don’t want to push away too quickly as though I’m freaked out. I’m worried he’ll think I’m assuming he’s taking advantage and I know he’s not. When I think about it, he’s exactly where he was when we fell asleep. I’m the one who rolled over and mounted him. I move to pull back slowly, taking my arm off him and curling it into myself. When I go to pull away completely, though, he grumbles and tightens his arm over me.

“Where are you going? You’re warm.” His mouth is against my hair now and his warm breath tickling through the strands to my scalp makes me shiver slightly. “See,” he mumbles. “You’ll be cold if you leave.”

“I’m not cold.” I whisper, and roll myself out of his embrace. He’s right, though, the distance immediately makes me cold.

“Liar.” he smirks as he watches me wrap my arms around myself.

“Do you have to know everything?” I ask, my voice slightly acidic.

He raises a questioning eyebrow at me. “When did you get mean in the mornings?”

“I’m always mean in the mornings.

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