I'm only glad that he isn't going to be the one to give me the final blow and end us. It's not going to go that way .... My body is opting out first. I sigh with the knowledge it won't be long before he comes to me, and I get to wrap myself around all that I have missed.

"Lorey?..... Lorey, baby?" a panicked familiar voice tugs at my hearing but I can't open my eyes, the heaviness pulling me down so smoothly. Yet a warm smooth touch splays across my face, trying to keep me in the light as I'm tugged up and yet can't respond. "Baby why...