What is love

Ace POV

They say when you wake with the woman you love in your arms it feels like the whole world has been set right. That your entire being is at peace and you find true happiness in that moment. I have to agree with that... except once reality kicks in, you feel like you just been mind fucked and panic.

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My mind drifted between a dream and the heat on my skin as I slowly woke. I felt the velvet under my fingertips and hummed knowing she was there by my side. I think my hand was on her stomach and fuck did it feel good. I licked my lips as my thumb drew circles knowing this would be the closest to heaven someone like me would ever reach.

I could feel her breathing and for some reason it filled me with enormous hope just from the fact that she was alive and real. How could one life be so dependent on another's? It just made no rational sense. We were two separate people, yet I knew, without a doubt, I couldn't survive this world unless she was in it.

My eyelids slowly opened needi