Chapter 1
The sound of her husband's snoring reaches her ears..they weren't loud or cumbersome..but soft and steady. The slight rise and fall of his chest the only movement. Putting down her pen, she gets up and makes her way over to the bedside, the ambient glow of her desk lamp the only light in the room..it casts a soft yellowish hue on both her and Sasuke.
She looks down on his sleeping form, his impossibly black hair fanned out on the dark blue pillow, a stray stand drapes over his sharp jaw line.
He looked so peaceful when he slept. His features though strikingly beautiful, were not hardened and cold, but softened and relaxed.
He appeared different. More approachable. She softly removed the stray silken strand that covered his face. His eyes twitch but do not open. His long dark sooty lashes created spider legged shadows on his pale ivory flesh.
She felt no fear ..no timidness or anxiety. She only felt peaceful and amazed, she could sit and stare at her sleeping husband without tiring, without judgment.
Awake he had always detested being studied or stared at, it was annoying..bothersome. His words. His alluring mystical eyes could pierce her very soul..freeze her. They could make her tremble, make her fear or even make her sigh his name. They could cast an illusion to break the mind..they could kill..and oh, they were so beautiful and lovely.
Closed she felt no pressure or intensity or even the usual breathlessness she felt when he looked at her. Closed he was simply a man..an ordinary man. She felt free to watch him and admire him..while he slumbered.