Thursday came faster than Sarai had expected, she was excited and nervous all at the same time, she couldn’t decide what to wear, some of her clothes too casual, too formal, too sexy and evening wear, too “curl up with a book at home”. Sarai sat on her bed staring aimlessly at her wardrobe; she then pulled out a plain white t-shirt and a three-quarter denim ripped jean and paired it up with a crisp clean pair of white Nike trainers. Keeping her makeup very minimal, she used a little compact powder, black eyeliner, mascara, and ruby red lipstick; Sarai straightened out her hair. Sarai got into her small Hyundai I20 and left for work, a part of her was shaking with nerves while the other part could not wait for the clock to strike two.Sarai kept looking at the clock while attending to customers. As the time dragged, she looked over at her phone that had been buzzing with messages from Hugo, she had been replying but every time she had the goofiest smile on her face, butterflies in her

“I love you Hugo”“What?”Hugo was beyond flabbergasted, he looked at Sarai wide-eyed; but in his mind Beast was doing somersaults and howling loudly that Hugo could not focus or react. Sarai covered her mouth,“I’m sorry… I have no idea what came over me; I will understand if this has freaked you out and I never hear from you again”Sarai turned to her car, her hands trembling as she unlocked her car and got in, Hugo held the car door open before Sarai could slam it shut“Where are you going?”“Home, I think I’ve embarrassed myself enough in these last few minutes”Hugo took Sarai by the hand and pulled her gently out the car, he held her around the waist and pulled her close, their faces inches away, Hugo pushed back a stray strand of hair that blew over Sarai’s face,“You did nothing wrong… you simply spoke your mind”

Hugo parked the car outside his house at the pack lands, Zeke came over,“things got that bad at home that you had to actually choose?”“Yup”Hugo replied as he opened a bottle of beer, the two young men watched the waves roll onto the shore as they took a sip of beer,“I cannot believe you were going to reject her”Hugo thought back to that he called Sarai to end things, and when she said that she would cut him out of her life; it scared Hugo to the very core of his human and supernatural being. Hugo came here to Zeke who took him the pack elder to give him insight,FLASHBACK STARTSHugo told Zeke the entire story and how he was afraid that Sarai would be put in harms way everyday he stayed with her; he could not do that to her, she was innocent in this entire supernatural war of Rockshore Bay; Zeke could see the turmoil this decision

The door of the bungalow was opened by a middle-aged man that was in a floral shirt, and cargo shorts, he came down and took the bags from Hugo and walked inside; as Sarai and Hugo walked up the front porch stairs, a middle-aged woman greeted Sarai and Hugo at the door with refreshing ice-cold champagne cocktails, Sarai looked over at Hugo;“I am impressed”.“You ain’t seen nothing yet my darling”.Sarai blushed as Hugo held her around her waist and led her to the back garden, there was a beautiful maple wood patio, it had a white umbrella opened, a table and two chairs set up, the patio overlooked the most tropical garden, and a path that led down to the beach. Hugo took Sarai by the hand and they walked down the path hand in hand to the beach, it was picturesque, something you would see on a postcard, white sand beach with the most crystal azure blue water.“Hugo, this place is a piece of paradise”&ldquo

The next morning Sarai woke up before Hugo, she looked at the time on her phone, it was ten in the morning, she could feel a whole in her tummy, she got out of bed slowly and Hugo stirred, she placed a pillow in his arms; she was going to make breakfast and surprise him. After a quick shower, Sarai slipped on a pink strap top and a pair of shorts and beach sandals, she walked into the kitchen and Aggie shot up from her chair, she was trembling slightly,“Sit down, enjoy your coffee”“Ma’m you should have called me if you wanted something”Sarai reached up into the cabinet and pulled out the waffle mixture, Aggie ran to grab it from Sarai, Sarai put up her hand to stop Aggie,“I want to make breakfast for Hugo, you can help me”“But Ma’m”“Hugo will not say anything, I am allowed to do things for… errrm… my boyfriend?”Sarai shrugged and Aggie laughed