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He’d never felt this level of responsibility for someone before. Not even with Elizabeth.
He let out a deep breath.
A cry made him jump up. What the hell?
This time, a scream filled the hotel room. Fuck! He raced into the bedroom to find Maggie thrashing around on the bed in the middle of a nightmare.
Fuck!
He moved over to her, trying to shake her awake. “Maggie? Sweetheart?”
She stopped thrashing, her eyes opening to stare up at him. Then, suddenly, she started to cry.
Holy fuck.
She was killing him.
Without thinking it through too much, he gathered her into his arms and held her tight. What could he do to help her?
Then he remembered Jack soothing her. He picked her up and started bouncing slightly with her in his arms, patting her bottom. Seeing Ziggy on the bed, he gathered him up and put him in her arms.
But she just wouldn’t stop crying. And she was killing him.
“Hush, precious girl. Please?”
God. He sounded so unsure. He needed to be more confident. For her.
“I’m so sorry. I c-can’t stop. You can . . . y-you can just leave me.”
Yeah. Like fuck that was happening.
Enough of this, arsehole. Do what she needs.
“I will not be leaving you,” he told her firmly. “And that’s going in your notebook.”
“It’s b-back in Escana.”
“No, it’s not. Ian packed it.”
She kept crying and he couldn’t take it.
“That’s enough now. You’re going to make yourself ill. Hush, now. Hush, precious girl.” He kept his voice firm, but kind.
She slowly got herself under control, her sobs dying off.
“You can put me down now.”
“Nope. I’m not ready to.”
Leaning back, she blinked up at him as though she’d never seen him before. “Is this bad Dom? Is good Dom going to come in?”
She was referring to the other day when Ian had come in after he’d broken through the numbness she’d pulled around herself?
“No, it’s just me, I’m afraid,” he said lightly.
“Just you is more than enough.” She gave him a small smile.
His tension eased. Until he realized that she still appeared miserable. She was just trying to hide it. To make him feel better.
