After a few moments of that delightful in-between place where neither slumber nor consciousness are really yours, I was awake and enjoying the warmth of Gabe"s arm around me. We"d stayed in the same position until dawn.
I felt better today; maybe the result of being held in Gabe"s lovely warm embrace, maybe because it was time to starting looking up not down, or maybe I had an intuition that success would soon surrender itself to us - whichever it was, I smiled, stifling a yawn in an effort not to wake the man who slept soundly behind me. I decided to indulge myself for a little longer before sliding out of bed to head for the bathroom. When I got there, I smiled at myself in the mirror.
Our breakthrough came on our fourth day in Exley and purely by accident. Gabe and I had paused for lu
