Felix fell asleep almost immediately, but I really am not that surprised.  He looked like he was going to fall asleep at the counter earlier after he finished eating his small portion of dinner.  He really is so small and skinny.  With everything that has happened to him over the past couple of weeks, it would take the fight out of anyone.  There were times when I could tell that he was putting on a brave face, like when I first walked into the room right after he woke up, but I could see the cracks in his façade. When he told me what had happened how he had been treated by those hunters, I was seeing red.  The only reason why I wasn’t going out to hunt those bastards down was because of the desperate way that he clung to me, like he needed me to comfort him.  It felt so good to simply rub his back and feel him cry into my chest, like I was actually needed by him.  It was over all too soon when he pulled away, but don’t get me started on how cute it was when he was acting all territorial over my blanket.  The way he clung to it and pulled it out of the way from me touching it, too cute!

I looked over at him, again completely wrapped from head to toe in my blanket.  I suppose I couldn’t blame the guy; it was the softest blanket I had ever felt.  And it wasn’t one of those that got less fuzzy after a couple of washings because I had had it for several years and it was just as fuzzy as when I first bought it, if not more so.  I really wanted to scoop him up and put him in my lap, but I also didn’t want to scare the poor kid more than he already had.  So, I settled for gently petting his head.

I really wanted to tell him the truth about our relationship, but I didn’t want to rush him.  When I had put the clothes on him after we had made it back to the house after the auction, I saw several scars on his body, including a gunshot wound that was on the right side of his chest.  I knew there was more to his story than just this kidnapping and abuse, but I wanted to wait until he was comfortable enough to tell me before I told him the truth about us.  How he is my mate.