”Chiding me for being worried.” he snorted softly at her. He wasn’t sure what he could have done if she had stopped breathing. Wasn’t like he knew very much in resuscitation but he wouldn’t have forgiven himself if he had fallen asleep on the watch either. He remained quiet even though he could hear her pushing the chair back. The gentle touch on him caused his dull jade eyes to open and stare into those beautiful pale ones of Branwen's. She tugged him in and he willingly followed her lead as she leaned and pressed her leaps into his cheek. ”Welcome.” he said. His breath was a little caught in his throat and though he desperately wanted to look her in the eyes, there was more life there than when she couldn’t see. He just got her back. He couldn’t risk losing her again. He felt the graze against his ear and returned it with one of his own.

”Careful. We don’t need you busting your ass too.” he snickered as he lazily lifted himself up to his feet. Between being restless with a resting Bran and checking on Jema, his feet ached. He should have stayed off of them and remained patient but it wasn’t his strongest trait. If anything reminded himself that he should be patient only made the matter worse. He scooted along with her towards the bed until she nudged him backward. She gave a soft growl and he could definitely see the pink coming to her cheeks before cupping his face. ”Truthfully it wasn’t all that bad. I met someone who had….. helped me understand it a little better. I’m still not very good at controlling it and it still makes my head feel like it’s being tossed around in the ocean but I suppose it’s better than nothing.” He lifts his hands and rests them on her hips and he tugged her. He didn’t want to rest. He actually wanted to enjoy being able to be with Branwen again. She just wouldn’t understand that though.

Tugging her back onto the bed with him he leaned backward and scooted more up on the bed. ”I should but I don’t really want to. You are awake and I want to spend time with you.” she’d been out for almost two days and he had done his best to wait it out. The anticipation was killing him. ”I will be okay for a little longer. Humor me.” he said as he leaned in and nuzzled her gently. ”Please?” He grinned.

The pressure of her on his lap was making it increasingly hard to pay attention to anything else. He kept his breathing steady but his heart was thumping hard against his chest cavity making him feel a little breathless. He was doing his best to keep that under wraps but it was steadily becoming harder. The moment she pressed her lips into his own, he made it a point to put pressure on it. Leaning up and into her kiss as hands fought to keep to his sides. He knew he shouldn’t touch. He knew he shouldn’t be taking advantage of this situation but he had waited a long time. He had gone through her psychotic stages in hopes of her getting her head back on straight. Fought with her in his head to get her out of it but failed miserably. Unfortunately, he had to help her with it and since she couldn’t officially remember what all went on, he felt like he was taking advantage of her. He knew he wasn’t. he knew she asked….. but the problem was he could remember everything where she couldn’t.

Once she sat up though he could feel the urges start to simmer to a more controllable level. His jade eyes though were bright green with excitement and controlled anticipation. ”Sketch me?” he repeated her words finally coming to him that didn’t sound like a stereo on blast. ”If you must just make me beautiful, okay?” he grinned but it steadily faltered as she spoke once more. He lifts a hand and softly pressed it into the side of her cheek as he stared up at her. ”Your actions don’t make up for who you really are. It was a rough patch is all.” he said. ”And if it comes back we will deal with it together.” He ran his thumb over her cheek. He wasn’t letting her disappear on him again this time. If he hadn’t of let her run off from him on the beach none of this probably would have happened. She would be fine and in one piece and not feel like she has some shadow looming over her. ”I won’t let you go through that alone again.” he knew now where his place was to be and that place, for now, was to be with Branwen.

Of course, there was still the matter she was mated and that could become a hassle but unless she looked him square in the face and said she didn’t want him…. He would be there. ”not really.” he said. ”I lost my job but I made up for it with working with my sister, Solara.” He was sure she wouldn’t know about Solara…. He didn’t even really know much having just found her. ”Her ranch though burned down and I am helping her make repairs and fixing the place up and she wants me to be a trainer there.” he gave a small shrug and allowed his eyes to close for a moment as Branwen slid down into his side. He wrapped an arm around her and idly allowed his fingers to draw up and down along her side. ”Other than that I have been a rather boring person.” he moped was what he meant in only so many words. ”I couldn’t seem to get this she-wolf out of my head for some reason.” he glanced down at her with a playful smile before resting his head back again. ”Of course not. Unfortunately for you biting me and growling at me wasn’t that much of a deterrent. You probably should have tried harder if that was the case.” that or he was just plain dumb.

Her next question made him arch a brow for a moment. ”No. I seem to be good a picking up people to help though.” He was pretty good at being friend zoned. ”I have a friend right now that is more horse than human. She’s sweet but very skittish. I do my best to help her but she has some demons even I don’t know how to slay. Or I could but I doubt she wants me running around in her head misplacing things.” He snorted softly. ”Besides having already done that for you…. I probably shouldn’t for awhile anyway.”

She trusted him was what she told him and somehow a little bit of him felt guilty. He was not so much of a hero as she thought of him being but more or less he wasn’t there for her as much as he would have liked to. He didn’t abandon her but he didn’t go out of his way either. It also didn’t help matter that a lot of them time he didn’t know where he stood with her. She often pulled him in and held him in suspension only to end up dropping him again. As she spoke he gave her a nod but his mind was busy watching the path his fingers fell over her curves. Every inch of her he wanted to touch and explore and he was doing his best to refrain from doing so. He didn’t want to get swept up into the matter all over again just to have her tell him no much like the night on the beach. ”I didn’t until recently.” he said. ”I probably should have gone to her first anyways but eh you know… stubborn male pride.” He tipped his head down a bit and kissed at her fingers as she drew on his chest. ”Well you definitely didn’t.”

He wasn’t sure what it was that was so hypnotizing about her but there was something just there. As hard as he tried to look at it in a very analytical way, he couldn’t. She had a hold on him that he spent months trying to overcome. It drove him into a mad rage towards the end primarily because he knew it was just over. Her words caused his to arch a brow. ”If I don’t, who will?” he asked. There weren’t very many helpful people out there but he wanted to be a part of that change in the world. A start to a positive ripples through society because if he helped one person then they would hopefully carry on and help another should the time come. ”Bored? If I wanted to get bored I would have while you dipped out on me a few times. A person doesn’t stick around when they feel like they are being played. I just had a hard time doing that. You kept me for whatever reason.” he said quietly as she leaned up and kissed his cheek. She asked if there was something she could do and he shook his head no. ”Just be you.” he said with a gentle smile. ”Even if I can’t have anything else I still enjoy your company.” But he couldn’t promise he would always keep his hands to himself either.

Soon she started to let her hands roam and he felt every nerve ending burn in her wake. Her lips were soon creeping along his jaw and down to his neck. His breath was starting to get caught in his throat as eyes fell shut. ”You are free to do as you please.” his voice was low and hushed as she breathed against his skin. She was causing some emotions to rise to the surface and in that instant he sat up a little and started to return what she was doing to him. His fingers traced and ran over hips and up acrossed her abdomen. Kisses lay just beneath her jaw bone before eventually claiming her lips. He leans forwards tugging on the button of her jeans.