Talia's POV

I must have slept off to Ken ranting about all the many things he thought I should have known.

I woke up to my head on his chest. No wonder I even slept at all. He had his hands on the small of my back.

Ken was sound asleep and his chest was rising and falling, rhyming with his breath, taking me slightly up and down with him. His arms were strange, Kael's was hairy, Ken's is smooth. Strange, but comfortable, strangely comfortable.

As I tried to wiggle free from him, he instinctively held me tight without even changing his position or fixing to wake up.

I pulled...