Chapter 91

It was almost a relief when she fell asleep so quickly. Listening to her low, slow respiratory as he stroked his fingers up and down her arm, surrounded in the heat scent of her, it was a second he'd dreamed of for years.

But his dull physique would not relax.

He lay in the dark of the little house, staring at the ceiling, just feet above the bed, the straight lines of the walls, and the skin between his shoulder blades itching. Gabriel gritted his tooth and closed his eyes. Maybe if he could not see how close the roof was… perhaps if he couldn't see all the flat walls and unnatural planes…

But even with his eyes closed his senses prickled—rebreathing the air, no trace of the breeze that constantly fluttered thru the bushes of Thana—screaming at him that he was inside. That this area was a cage, an unnatural space, that the people had a hand in it and they were going to drag him back!

Gabriel screwed his eyes tightly closed and pinched his nose, rem