I held her in my arms and stared down into her eyes. Time seemed to pause and the both of us were lost in each other's gaze. Our heartbeats, I felt, were working in sync and I could almost guess the next line of action.
A kiss.
Except that it wasn't.
Annie surprised me. She raised her hand and slapped me on my chin.
"What do you think you're doing?"
*******
I sat in my dimly lit room, in front of my laptop casting a soft hue across my face. Thoughts of Annie, my mate on paper, swirled in my mind like a tempest.
For some reason, I could not just shake the feeling off. I thought there was an unspoken connection that was being built between us, an invisible thread connecting our hearts. I guess I was wrong.
I was staring at my laptop but all I could see was her face. I had found mys
