13
JAKE
When I woke up, I found myself clinging to Edith's soft, perfumed body.
I relaxed and enjoyed the contact until I felt her move away from me. I involuntarily tightened my grip. My mind would not accept the idea of being separated from her.
However, in the end I was forced to open my eyes. Finding her jade-coloured ones staring at me amused and serene made me stop breathing.
"Has anyone ever told you that the grumbling of your belly is more deafening than the alarm clock on my mobile phone?" she laughed, as I actually felt the pangs of hunger.
I laughed in turn. "I'm hungry," I admitted, leaving her free to get up.
No longer feeling her warmth was an attack on my inner peace, but I quickly buried that new malaise I was now beginning to know since
