If that was okay with him?
Sven was completely stunned, but he wanted to shout YES. Only, he was still approaching this situation with caution. When the séance happened, this is what he hoped would happen next. Still, he wasn’t going to rush anything, but having her lie next to him was a positive step into healing everything. Plus, he could keep an eye on her.
When they were together, before she had been cursed, they hadn’t been intimate. They’d kissed, but it was chaste because it was a different time. Flo wanted to wait until marriage and he’d respected that. The night they were going to run away together, that was the night everything was going to change for the both of them.
Before her, it had been a long time since he’d been with anyone, and so now it had been even longer. And it didn’t matter. He’d wait forever for her, even if his body was burning with need.
“Of course it’s all right if you sleep in here,” he responded.
She nodded, her lips pressed together firmly as she floated over to his bed and then gently lay down on top of the covers.Sven followed suit. Usually, he liked to sleep naked, though he didn’t wander around nude like his brother did.
Tonight, he was perfectly fine sleeping on top of the covers in his clothes, as long as it was next to Flo. Lying on the bed next to her, he held himself completely straight, like a board, because he didn’t want to scare her.
“Thank you,” she whispered in the dark, and then she rolled onto her side, tucking her hands under her head. “I know this must be uncomfortable for you…”
“I don’t care, Flo. I’m just glad you’re here with me. You’re not lost anymore.”
She smiled at him sweetly. “I want to remember. I truly do. I hate that it’s gone and I hate that it was getting worse.”
Sven leaned over and touched her face, and she closed her eyes. “I’ll help you remember me. I don’t care how long it takes.”
“You don’t?”
“Immortal, remember?”
She laughed softly and nodded. “Would you hold me?”
“I would like that.” He slid over to the middle and she curled up against his chest before he wrapped his arms around her.
“Oh,” she murmured.
“What?”
“You don’t have a heartbeat either.”
“Ghoul.”
“I think I do remember that about you.”
“Although, Magnus’ heartbeat returned when his curse was broken.”
Flo didn’t say anything further, and as he glanced down, he could see she was asleep, or resting the way the cursed and undead usually rested. Even though he was tired himself, he really didn’t want to close his eyes and miss this moment with her because he was afraid that if he went to sleep, he’d wake up and she’d be gone.
He was afraid this was all just a dream waiting to end, like so many times before.
Sven had literally sleptlike the dead. His head hurt a bit, as if he were hungover. As he rubbed his eyes, he remembered everything and reached out beside him, only Flo wasn’t there. He flicked on the lamp to find a big, ruddy face hovering over him.
“Odin’s testicles,” he shouted, scrambling to sit up in the bed.
“Good morning!” Erickson shouted happily. “Have you had enough time to process what happened to you?”
“No,” Sven growled, willing his body to relax. “Where’s Flo?”
“The revenant? I do not know. She wasn’t in here when I came in. I made sure of it,” Erickson responded proudly, puffing out his chest.
Sven groaned and slid off the bed, rubbing his temples. “Erickson, were you always this loud in the morning?”
“Always, my friend. You were just delicate. I was hardy,” Erickson barked with laughter.
