All Chapters of Mate: Part Two: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

~Jane~ As Nathan drove me to school, I stared out the window, watching the world pass in a blur of color and light. But I wasn’t really seeing any of it. My mind was still back in the shower. With him. Heat lingered beneath my skin, slow and steady, like it had settled there and refused to leave. Like a part of me was still pressed against him… still caught in that moment. The water had poured over us, warm and endless, tracing every line of our bodies as his hands moved over me—firm, certain… like he already knew exactly how to make me unravel. My breath hitched at the memory. My back had been pressed against the shower wall, cool against my heated skin… his body close, holding me there. Every inch of him grounded me and unraveled me all at once. There hadn’t been space to think. Only to feel. His hands had wandered slowly, deliberately, learning me in a way that made my pulse race… like he wasn’t just touching me, but memorizing me. Worshipping me in every way. And th

~Nathan~ Letting Jane go is never easy. It never is. Even though it’s something I’ve had to do time and time again, it doesn’t make it hurt any less. The moment I step away from her… it feels like I’m leaving a part of myself behind. She completes me in every way. When I’m with her, everything feels right. Easy. Like breathing comes naturally again. But mornings like this… when she has to go to school, when I have to walk away and leave her behind— It never feels right. What I wouldn’t give to stay with her. To keep her in my arms and never have to let go. To live in that world we fall into so easily… where it’s just the two of us. The only time I get close to that is on the weekends. Those moments when I don’t have to watch the clock. When I don’t have to count down the hours until I have to leave her again. When I can just be with her… hold her, feel her, exist in everything we are without interruption. But until she graduates… This is our reality. I sit in the car lon