It was better than what they had an hour ago even if you told him that he wouldn’t have believed it.
It was what, he determined, they would have starting from now.
It was everything.
But it couldn’t be her dream, obviously.
So, it was just a dream.
Not foreshadowing of the future.
Sonia turned in his arms.
He followed her, tucking the back of her body into the front of his and wrapping his arms around her.
Unconsciously in her sleep, like she did after her injection, her hands slid along his forearms but this time the fingers of both laced with his.
His fingers tightened in hers and he smiled into her hair.
So deep in thought, he didn’t notice her left hand was bare.
He also hadn’t noticed her wedding rings sitting on her nightstand.
It took some time but finally Callum, with his queen wrapped safe in his arms, followed her to sleep.
* * * * *
“Wake up, honey, we have company and we’ve got a celebration to attend,” Callum whispered in her ear.
Sonia’s eyes fluttered. They focused hazily on him and he saw the hunger flow into them before she blinked, her body jerked and she got up on an arm, pulling the hides to her chest.
“Good goodness,” she breathed. “Leah and Lucien, I should…”
She trailed off and looked around the room as Callum stared at her, stunned by her behavior.
She always wanted play in the morning, even if she was sleepy.
“Sonia,” he called and she blinked again and looked at him sitting on the edge of the bed, “Are you okay?”
“Yes, fine, um… yes,” she stammered and then twisted so her back was to him, threw the hides aside and swung her legs off the bed.
She was heading to the bathroom when his eyes narrowed and his temper frayed.
“Sonia,” he repeated and she stopped and turned to him, clearly distracted.
“Yes?”
“Come here,” he ordered.
She stilled then asked, “What? Now?”
Callum’s temper frayed a little more.
This wasn’t, exactly, what he thought their lives would be like after she’d admitted she loved him.
And this wasn’t, at all, what he’d determined they’d be like which was what they were like in his dream.
“Yes,” he said evenly. “Now.”