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“Claire-Bear?” I whispered in the darkness, feeling that familiar swell of anxious energy building up inside of me. “Are you awake?” Of course she wasn’t. It was half past four in the morning and she was clearly sleeping like every other normal human, but I was selfish and needy. “Babe?”
“Shh, Gerard,” she half moaned, half purred. “Mmm.” Shifting around, she thrust her ass against me and snuggled deeper into the mattress. “Five more minutes.” Reaching up, she gripped my forearm with her hand, nails digging into my flesh and then retracting like a little kitten. “I’m just resting my eyes.”
I chuckled in the darkness, knowing that she was more awake than asleep.
“Shh.” Twisting around to face me, she draped her thigh over my legs and snuggled into my side, using her cheek to nuzzle my bare chest. “I’m super tired.”
I smiled in the darkness. “Say it again.”
“Mmm, say what?”
“Super.”
“Shh.”
“Come on, Claire-Bear.”
“No.”
“Come on, just once.”
“No.”
“Just say it.”
“Why?”
“Because it’s fucking adorable.”
“Fine,” she huffed, reaching a hand up to pinch my nipple. “Super.”
“Fuck.” I couldn’t stop the laugh that escaped my lips. “You’re super cute, do you know that?”
“I was five,” she grumbled, fully awake now. “I thought I was being sophisticated using the word ‘super’ all the time.”
“Hey, the five-year-old version of you is still more sophisticated than the current day version of me.” Grinning, I added, “You still make that tiny whistle noise when you say it.”
“No, I don’t,” Claire huffed. “That whistle noise was an unfortunate temporary side effect of losing my baby teeth.” Pulling up on her elbow, she smiled down at me. “See, perfectly formed adult teeth now, with zero whistling.”
“You’re so beautiful,” I admitted because one, I had a problem keeping my mouth shut, and second, it was the truth. I’d never seen anything like her. “I swear you shine even in the darkness.”
“You’re such a joker.”
“I’m not joking.”
She studied my face for a long beat, clearly searching for the lie before blowing out a shaky breath and flopping back down on my chest. “You are so frustrating, Gerard Gibson.”
“Yeah.” Swallowing deeply, I draped an arm around her and nodded. “I know.”
“Tell me a story.”
I arched a brow. “A story?”
“Mm-hmm.” Nodding, she yawned sleepily. “It’s the least you can do considering you woke me from an epic dream.”
“You were dreaming?”
“I dream every night.”
