Hmm, I stretched awake with the morning sun feeling, alive. Sore, tired, but alive. Gabriel had chased away my fears the night before by loving me until I was too tired to take or think anymore. I rolled over with a smile that soon fled as I rushed from the bed to the bathroom to empty my stomach of its contents.

I guess I was still nervous about meeting his family and friends, after all, to the point that I had made myself sick. That’s how Gabriel found me when he came ...