This chapter is dedicated to @Sacogun! Thank you so much for the supergift!
All she could hear was his loud heartbeat thumping against her ear as she slumped bonelessly against his broad chest. It felt like she had fallen right down from the heavens now. Only that she was not going to fall back on earth and die. She was falling back into those heavenly arms of his. And that feeling was so… she could not quite explain it.
But she knew that she was already on the verge of drifting into sleep. It was like she had lost every single iota of her strength. No… she cannot sleep yet… she must not!
"Sleep." She heard his deep voice rumble into her ears. And she protested, forcefully opening her eyes to look at him. "Stop fighting it you, stubborn woman and just sleep." There was a tinge of amusement in his voice as he said that.