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Chapter 4

He smiled and jumped out of the car and ran round to my side to open my door before I had even taken my seatbelt fully off. He held his hand out for me and I accepted it and a small part of the true him with a small smile. He led the way to a small shed-like hut and inside I saw it was surrounded by hay which was covered in dust – obviously this place was abandoned.

"Okay so, my dad and brothers are close by with a few other people I know. If it is okay, I won't be too long. I'll go pick them up then come straight back here and get you. Once you have changed, go and hide behind the huge hay stack on the far left." He indicated with his finger. "Don't get up until you here my voice. I won't be too far so if something happens…"

…you can talk to me like this. His beautiful voice filled my mind with his concern and worry for me.

I lifted my hands to his face and cupped his cheek, "I'll be fine. You go and I'll be waiting right here for you".

"Right, okay." He gave me a tight heart-melting hug, his arms wrapped around my waist silently comforting me. I brought my arms and wrapped them around his neck giving him and me both the comfort and reassurance we needed.

He gently kissed the tip of my nose and turned around to go.

It will be okay. We're both fine. I thought I should give my strong, handsome soulfinder a bit reassurance.

I turned around to get dressed behind the huge stack of hay. When I opened the bag I found matching set of a scarf (something that ladies wear around the head to cover their hair), a burqa (something which is worn over the face to cover all parts of face and head except for eyes) and an ubaya (a long dress-type garment). I quickly got dressed and sat down against the hay stack. Everything that had happened today ran through my head and I was thinking about what I knew so far about Victor, when my vision went black.

I woke some time later and found myself moving but not on my feet. When my eyes fully opened the first thing I saw was my beautiful soul.

"Hey". I said alerting him that I was now with him

"Hi, you're up. Did you sleep okay behind there?" he asked concerned. By now we had stopped moving and I gave him an honest nod.

"You looked so peaceful, I didn't want to wake you" he explained.

"Vic, you can put me down now."

He put me on my feet, his arms still around me and he stiffened. "You called me 'Vic'."

The shock and pleasure that ran across his face gave me my own hit of happiness and calamity. I gently moved my hands up his strong, muscled arms and he shivered slightly as my hands continued up to cup his face.

"Vic – my soul" I simply said.

I watched him visibly swallow as he took a step back; we were so close our noses were almost touching. He kept his arms around and told me in a more growly voice than usual "Look, once we get out of this mess and we have freed you from here, we can go back to Colorado to my house then we will be free to do anything. But I want to take things slow and you control our relationship at your pace. I don't ever want you to feel pressured into doing anything you don't want. I can see how you feel and I can see what you were just thinking," I blushed "but I want you to feel completely comfortable and at ease with me. We have a long life ahead of us and I won't let anything ever happen to you and now that I've found you I won't let anything happen to me either. So everything is in your own pace, okay sweetheart?"

I took a step closer and moved my face right up in front of his. Once again our noses were almost touching. "At my own pace. I am already pretty comfortable with you… in fact so much o that I can do this without any pressure." By now I truly was very comfortable with him. I moved my lips to the space just below his ear and pressed a kiss just there. I felt his arms tighten around me, so I skated my lips against his soft but ruff skin where he had a stubble and moved all the way to his cheek. I moved back to look at him and saw his eyes closed. I whispered "Open your eyes". He waited a second then his eyes opened way darker than before. I realised then that one, I had caused that reaction and two, I loved it. I felt my blush and a shy smile creep up and he cleared his throat, surely controlling himself.

"Later" he promised. Straight away I knew what that meant and I gave a small nod. He took my hand in his releasing my body from his arms and looked me in the eyes. "Ready? There are a few people in that car and I can say that they will all love you." I just nodded in response.

I followed my soul into my destiny wondering what I'd done to get so incredibly lucky.