"Sorry. Didn't mean to wake you."
"You didn't." He opened his eyes, those silver-blue depths catching the early light. "I was already awake. Just enjoying holding you."
My heart squeezed. "We should get up."
"Should. But don't want to." He tightened his arms around me. "Can we have five more minutes?"
"Five minutes won't change anything."
"Five minutes of peace before we walk into danger? That changes everything."
He had a point.
I settled back against him, breathing in his scent—pine and smoke and something uniquely him. The mate bond pulsed with contentment.
"Kael?"
"Mm?"
"Last night... was it—"
"Perfect," he interrupted. "It was perfect. You were perfect. We were perfect together."
Heat crept up my neck. "I mean... are you okay? I know you waited a long time—"
"Two hundred
