"Babe, open up." - I repeated, knocking again on the spare bedroom's door. - "I don't want you to be angry."
The door swung open and Ellie, with her hair all wet, with nothing but a towel around her dripping body, showed up.
"Maddy…" - she sighed with exasperation - "I'm not angry, I'm disappointed. That wasn't an over the top request to make, yet you made such a big deal out of it. I guess I was expecting more from you."
It was hard to focus on her words, when my brain only saw my almost-naked mate that I hadn't had in my arms since yesterday. I have no idea how I went three years without her, when now twenty-four hours seems like too long a time without her.
"Ellie, it's just how it always was here." - I said, putting my hands on her hips and pulling her closer to me.
"So maybe
