Marcel: I smiled as I woke up to find Natalia asleep in my arms. Her chest rose and fell with each breath that she took, and her face as she called my name, crying for it, whimpering as she neared her end played in my head in a way that I couldn’t help but find myself adoring. I kissed her cheek, and I couldn’t help but chuckle when she opened her eyes as my scruff scratched her cheek, she was a light sleeper, I found out, when she wanted to be. “Good afternoon,” I said, smiling at her. “Hey,” she whispered, looking up at me as if I was her knight in shining armor. I didn’t know what she had in her head, but I knew one thing, whatever it was, the smile on her face made everything all the more worth it. “What time is it?” “Early enough,” I said, making her laugh. “We barely dozed off

