Embrace the Night

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"I don't know. I…"

"What is it?"

"I don't know how to explain it," she said, frowning. "But when we were making love, I had the strangest feeling that I was someone else. That wewere somewhere else."

Gabriel swore under his breath. For a moment, his mind had gone back in time, and he had imagined it was Sara Jayne in his arms. But how had Sarah known that?

"And you…"

A muscle worked in Gabriel's jaw. "What about me?"

"I don't know. You were different somehow. Your eyes…" She raised up on one elbow and gazed at him intently, then shook her head. "Never mind."

Gently, he brushed a wisp of hair from her brow, then pulled her down beside him once again. "Gabriel?"

"Hmmmm?"

"I think I'm falling in love with you." She bit down on her lip when he didn't say anything. "You don't mind, do you?"

"No, Sarah, I don't mind."

She waited, hoping he would tell her he loved her, too, or at least say that he cared, but he only gazed at her, his gray eyes dark with desire. But, deeper than the glow of passion, she saw another emotion blazing in his eyes, one she didn't recognize.

She tried to decipher it, but it was quickly gone, and then he was making love to her again, tenderly this time, carrying her away with him to heights she had never scaled, depths she had never plumbed, ecstasies she had never imagined.

And there, in the midst of rapture beyond anything she had ever dreamed of, she glimpsed the true depths of Gabriel's loneliness, his emptiness, his need to be held, to be loved.

Tears burned her eyes as her soul merged with his. With a sob, she wrapped her arms and legs around him, holding his body close even as she whispered that she loved him, that she would always love him, that he would never be alone again.

And then they came together, hearts and bodies blending together, their tears mingling as they found that one moment of shared perfection that carried them beyond the bounds of time and space.

And for her there was fulfillment and a sense of peace.

And for him there was light and hope and a sense of coming home after a long dark journey.