Mine.

Rael POV

Even as time passed, my eyes sat on her frame, watching every single detail.

The slow rise and fall of her chest, and the tiny puffs of breath she breathed out through her slightly opened lips. She was in a deep sleep, one I had a feeling she wouldn’t wake up so easily due to her exhaustion. The flush on her cheeks has cooled the town, leaving only her pale complexion shining against the city lights that reflected through my window.

Somehow, this felt stranger than the last time I had watched over her like this. Not the time in the room, but the first time, when I had broken into her house on instinct, watching her hand curl over her belly before she woke up.

Perhaps then, from the craze of the full moon, I seemed unaffected, solely focusing mostly on my instincts, which had made me act so out of my control as I said those words to her. But right now, the full moon was far from present. I was clear minded, and as I watched her now, it felt too intrusive.

Too… intimate.

Yet