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I couldn't help but keep looking over at her. She looked perfect and I finally understood what it meant to find one's mate. Everything inside me was spinning like I was sitting on a carousel and it made me incredibly happy that she had wrapped my jacket so tightly around my body.

Her brown eyes had something of a frightened deer in them, but strength and courage also lay deep within them. The brown hair fell down smoothly and at the same time smelled like fresh shampoo, but also like cigarettes, which put a grin on my face for a moment. Fate was probably really too kind to me.

While Jayden was driving the car and I could hear Chiara snoring softly, I noticed that Josie's eyes slowly drooped shut again and again. "We have a fold out bed if you want to rest," I told her, watching her yawn sweetly. "No, it's alright."

I figured she was going to want to stay awake. Who would want to fall asleep in a stranger's car?

The monotonous noise of the tires was slowly tiring me again, but I didn't want to fall asleep, rather I wanted to keep looking over at her and admiring her until I heard her breathing slowly and noticed that her eyes were tightly closed.

She looked really cute with her chest slowly rising and her mouth opening a little bit. I smiled to myself and then got up quietly to unfold the bed in the back of the RV. It wasn't big, but I'd make it comfortable for her.

I spread out the thin blanket and arranged the two pillows, then walked over to her and carefully lifted her onto my arms. She smacked her lips softly and suddenly grabbed my neck to hold on, which took my breath away. I looked at her beautiful lips and wanted to taste them, but I had to control myself and wait for fate to take its course.

I carefully carried her to the small bed and carefully laid her down, then tucked her in and took one last look at her sweet, pointy nose.

Something inside me began to change, which unsettled me at the same time, but also made me incredibly happy. "A good feeling, isn't it?" Jayden said suddenly behind me and only then did I realize that the car had come to a stop. "What do you mean?" I asked him, pretending to be ignorant. I didn't want to come across as a weak idiot in love, but he knew me too well I couldn't pretend.

"We should make ourselves comfortable. I couldn't find a motel or anything like that," he said and I was glad that he changed the subject because he knew how I was. "Where should we sleep?" I asked him and looked over at Josephine. How I would have liked to lay down on her fragrant body, but I wasn't allowed to and it drove me crazy. "I know where you want to sleep, but I wouldn't risk it," Jayden suddenly laughed quietly next to me, giggling like a little boy, covering his mouth with his hand. "Idiot," I hissed at him and walked past him out the door to light a cigarette.

It was pitch dark and I still recognized the fields around us. How gladly would we have run a few laps as a wolf, but Chiara had forbidden us to do so. If hunters saw us they wouldn't hesitate to shoot us and I wasn't about to leave, especially since the little brown haired one came into my life.

I could finally understand Jayden's inner conflict at the beginning. You felt really chaotic and didn't know what to do with the excess of feelings while even all the priorities you had before were fading into thin air.

"Are you coming?" I heard Jayden quietly behind me and threw the cigarette on the ground. I went back up the two flights of stairs and closed the door behind me to watch Jayden scatter all kinds of blankets and pillows on the floor. "That has to be enough for tonight," he said and then ran to the driver's cabin to carefully let Chiara down on his arms at the edge of the blankets.

"I've seen worse," I laughed, making myself comfortable on the other side.

Jayden lay down between Chiara and me and five minutes had hardly passed when I heard his incredibly annoying snoring, whereupon I elbowed him in the back. "What is it?" he asked me annoyed and I raised my upper body. "You snore like a fucking lumberjack!" I hissed and fell back on the pillow in annoyance.

"If it bothers you that much, go sleep with your girlfriend in the back," he murmured, and I recognized the tremor in his chest as he chuckled. "Really funny you ass."

I pulled the covers up over my head and forced myself to fall asleep quickly before he would start snoring again and luckily for me I was tired enough to drift off quickly into the dark.