Claim The Fallen 1 – Sam Ward

Not the usual groggy, one-sided kind of warm where part of your body has migrated toward the nearest heat source and your brain is running damage-control on the geometry. This was bilateral. Symmetrical. Her left arm—the new one, the one that hadn’t existed four days ago—was draped across my chest, fingers curled loosely into my shirt. My left hand was on her hip. Her right leg had hooked over mine at some point during the night.

My right arm was pinned under her head. My face must have shown something, because Lorelei looked at me and said, “What’s wrong?” “Nothing.” “You look like someone told you the inn stopped serving food.” “It’s not—” I rubbed the back of my neck. “Your arm is healed.” “I’m aware.” The patience of a woman who’d spent all day using it. “So you can undress yourself now.”

She stared at me. The long stare that started at my face and ended somewhere behind my skull where my actual thoughts lived. “That’s what you’re upset about.” “I’m not upset —” “You’re upset that you’ve lost your excuse to take off my clothes.” She was collapsed on my chest. Breathing hard. The left hand had released my shoulder and was resting against the side of my neck, fingers curled against my jaw.

The right arm hooked under my shoulder. We were a tangle again. Same as this morning, but infinitely different. I stared at the ceiling. I’m glad I died. The thought was ridiculous and sincere and I meant every word. I’m glad someone put three rounds in me in that parking lot. I’m glad Mortis found me interesting. I’m glad I pulled a sword from a cosmic slot machine and woke up in a field of alien grass.

Because this—this right here—is better than anything my old life ever offered me. Lorelei lifted her head. Looked at me. Her hair was a mess. Her cheeks were flushed. She looked younger than forty-two. “Are you crying?” she asked. “No.” I wiped my eyes. “Allergies.”

She put her head back on my chest. The left hand found mine and laced our fingers together. We fell asleep like that. I woke before she did. Dawn light through the shutters. She was still on my chest, still bare, still warm. Her face in sleep was unguarded in a way her waking face never was—the military mask gone, the careful neutrality gone, nothing left but a woman who’d chosen to be here.

I watched her breathe. She woke. Blinked. Looked at our arrangement. Looked at me. “Hi,” I said. “You’re staring.” “You’re worth staring at.” Her face went pink.

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And until about ninety seconds ago, I was inmate 4471-B at Ridgemont Correctional. They called it The Pit. Not the guards—the inmates. Every facility has a nickname, and ours was The Pit because once you fell in, you didn’t climb out the same person. Guys doing six months came out different. I did twenty-four of them. Aggravated assault. That was the charge. A bar fight I didn’t start, but I’d be lying if I said I tried to leave.

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