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kiss?’ I asked as I stood in front
of him leaving a few inches between us.
    ‘Don’t Mia,
it’s killing me as well. I have the two weeks of Suits we missed to distract
you if you want to snuggle up to me and watch that?’ I smiled, nodded and
sighed. ‘Why the sigh? You love Suits.’
    ‘I know and
I’ll enjoy it, it’s just going to be hard looking at Harvey all suited up
without remembering our last date that’s all. Come on, let’s wash up and we can
get in bed and not move until morning.’
    We got
ready and I sorted out his pillows and watched as he closed his eyes and
grimaced as he tried to get comfortable and I finally felt some stray tears on
my cheeks.
    ‘Don’t cry
Mia, please don’t cry.’
    ‘I hate
seeing you like this, in pain, all bashed up. It hurts, it hurts me ,
Gabe.’
    ‘I know
baby, that’s how I felt with you and not just at the hospital. When you had
that attack at home I felt every bit of it with you. It just shows how much we
care about each other.’
    ‘I love you
and I hate this.’
    ‘We’re both
going to get better Mia, and it’s going to be smooth sailing from then on, ok?
We’ve had our share of shit. Get undressed and get in here.’ He patted the bed
and watched as I rubbed the tears off my face and stripped off and nestled into
his side.
    ‘What’s
wrong? You aren’t hard.’
    ‘Seeing you
upset’s not a turn on for me baby, even when you’re standing naked. I need you
happy, ok?’
    ‘Ok,’ I
nodded.
    ‘Mia, a
week apart and we were at it all night, imagine what we’ll be like after four
or five weeks? It’ll be amazing.’
    ‘That’s the
trouble, I am imagining and I’m not patient, Gabe. Will you put Suits on or I’ll
start crying again.’
    It took my
mind off his troubles for a couple of hours and I helped him shuffle down the
bed and turned off the lights and draped myself over his left side as he
stroked the back of my neck.
    ‘I forgot
Gabe, I got something for us.’
    ‘What?’
    ‘Some graph
paper to draw out the apartment. I thought we could sketch out some scale plans
and cut out furniture to try different layouts. It’ll give us something else to
focus on and look forward to.’
    ‘Thanks
baby, that’s a great idea. I need something to get my teeth into. I’m fed up of
sitting around just studying or watching TV. I so need to work out as well. I’ll
end up with a flabby gut,’ he moaned. I ran my fingers over his hard abs.
    ‘Never, you
love your body as much as I do. If it gets out of shape you’ll soon put it back
right, besides, we’ll be having so much sex you won’t have time to work-out.’
    ‘Mia sex with
you is a work-out in itself and one I can’t wait for. Sleep baby you’ve a long
day of lectures tomorrow. I’ll cook something for when you get home ok?’
    ‘Thank you.
I love you.’
    ‘You too.’
He kissed the top of my head and I closed my eyes and let his strong heartbeat
lull me to sleep.

A Month Later
    I stretched out in bed and
rubbed my eyes yawning. The last four weeks seemed to have dragged at the time,
but lying here in bed now, it also seemed to have flown. It’d been seriously hard
work though. Gabe was getting more and more frustrated with wearing his sling
and not being able to do the things he loved, fucking in particular. We’d had a
massive argument over me not letting him inside me again, to the point I’d
slammed his bedroom door and locked myself in the spare room for the night so he
couldn’t get in. I’d received a massive bouquet of flowers the next day and he
apologised and told me it made him love me more, for putting his recovery ahead
of our need for each other.
    We’d had to
postpone our half term plans to go back to mine and to Edinburgh, so I’d caught
up with my studying and made sure he was on top of his, done loads of swimming,
Pilates and Gym. I’d ended my counselling sessions as I’d started to feel like
I was going around in circles and not resolving anything.