The combination of working in the fields all day and spending a night with Cassie left Serix tired enough to sleep soundly until morning, and even then he was still so far gone that he didn’t notice when she shifted beside him and sat up. He only awoke when Cassie pounced unexpectedly on his chest, startling him out of unconsciousness. She then proceeded to situate herself on top of him, pinning him so that he couldn’t get up, and leaned down to kiss him.

[b]“Time to wake up, sleepy head,”[/b] she said teasingly. [b]“If you don’t get up soon someone’s going to come in here and then instead of being woken up by me, you’ll be woken up by them, and you don’t want that, now do you?”[/b]

“You want me to get up?” Serix raised a brow at her. “Well, fine.” He quickly pushed her off of him and rolled over so that he was sitting on top of her, although he was careful not to put all of his weight on her. He grinned at her playfully and leaned down to kiss her on the tip of her nose, “I win.” With that, he got up and held out a hand to help her to her feet. Once she was up, he threw on a shirt and a pair of shoes —he had already put on a pair of pants last night in case one of the humans walked in on them in the morning— and held the curtain door aside.

“After you,” Serix said, waving a hand for Cassie to step through first. He had to admit; he was in a better mood now that they had worked out their differences and spent a much-needed night together. Hunter and Ryan would have a hard time provoking him to fight with them today. He felt like he could handle any kind of taunts they threw at him—so long as they didn’t get violent, of course. He would still defend himself if either of them attacked him first. He just hoped it wouldn’t have to come to that.

Serix smiled down at Cassie and rested a hand on the small of her back as they walked to the dining hall together to get breakfast.