ALPHA ZANE

I carried her to the bed and set her down slowly, making sure her head found the pillow before I pulled back to look at her.

Something had shifted in the last few minutes. Not just in the room, not just in the way she was looking at me. Something inside me had shifted too, I felt too relaxed especially for someone who wouldn’t stop thinking about everything.

I hovered over her, one hand braced beside her head, and I let myself actually look at her. The low light in the room was doing things I was not going to think too hard about, and she was watching...