Couldn’t Sleep

~Chapter 103~

"Force me to sleep," Mae muttered, wrapped around Nimaro's side, her head resting on his chest a light sheet draped over them.

"Still not tired?" he asked running his fingers through her hair.

The soft pale light of the moon filtering across their bedroom in their surface home, put out just enough light that she could make out the details of his face when she looked up at him.

"I am, but for some reason, I can't sleep. I knew this day was coming and yet it seemed to show up out of nowhere. It's been like eight weeks since we opened the gate, and sometimes, it still feels like yesterday. I haven't even gotten used to having you in my bed every night or Jasper upstairs in his own room. And we still need to get Nhaju's room painted. "

"You'll have plenty of time to decorate it for her, once you've made it back from Ix."

"Mom," Jasper whispered from the other side of the door, "are you awake?"