ARIANA
I looked at myself in the mirror for the last time.
Hair in a ponytail, face rid of any kind of makeup save for lipgloss, only a necklace for jewelry, if you weren't counting my wedding ring, a crop top, a pair of shorts, and a zipdown college hoodie, then boots. All check.
It was a college basketball game, and I intended to blend in, and not stick out like a sore thumb. Earlier today, Gabriel had done something that had shaken me to my very toes. He had kissed me in a way that I had actually had the fleeting thought of him stripping me naked and burying himself deep inside of me, regardless of the fact that we were in front of the building where I had my class!
That thought alone had kept me cooped up in school for longer than necessary, and I had, for the first time since I a
