Seventy-Three

🌷M O N G R E L 🌷

"What you radiate outward in your thoughts, feelings, mental pictures and words, you attract into your life."

- Catherine Ponder

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I woke up to the send of Alex softly breathing next to me. His warm body was curled around mine with his arm wrapped around my waist, holding me close as he slept. The events from a week ago seemed a distant memory now, and whatever hurt I had felt in the forest no longer seemed so terrible now that I was in Alex's arms, safe and secure. 

Moving slightly, I heard Alex sighed pleasantly in my ear, "I've been waiting for you to wake up."

"You were awake?" I asked.

"I didn't want you to wake up alone," Alex replied. 

Rolling over in his arms to face him, I admired his sleepy face grinning at me like the small child who had got the ice cream. Alex's hair was