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"All ready for bed," Damien called out. I knew he wasn’t talking to me, because I could tell his voice was aimed behind him, and slightly muffled.
"Right," Julian muttered. "Let's get her tucked in. She's almost out, I can tell."
Arms wrapped around me and I was lifted clean off the bed. My legs hung limply and uselessly beneath me as I was pulled up tight into a hard chest.
"Shh," Damien whispered in my ear. "I've got you, go to sleep."
I tried but failed to respond. That tea was some potent shit. I couldn't move or speak at all.
Damien laid me back down onto the bed. I felt soft, smooth sheets against my skin. My head rested comfortably on one of my many pillows. The covers were dragged over me and pulled up to my chin.
Sleep threatened to take me under. I fought it. I didn't know why, but I fought against it.
The sound of clothing rustling alerted me to the fact they were both undressing. This did not alarm me, I'd slept between the both of them before. I welcomed their comfort and their heat. Without it, I feared I might wake up screaming and all alone.
I felt the comforter shift on either side of me and then the bed dipped on each side. I felt them slide in closer and then I felt their heat.
One arm wrapped around me just below my breasts as a body pressed up tight to my side. From the other side of my body, an arm wrapped around me low, resting across both of my hips. This hand didn't land on me, but instead kept going and rested just above Julian's hip.
I would have snuggled into one or both of them if my body was able to move. Since it wasn't and things were getting groggier by the second, I relaxed into the bed and prayed for sleep to overtake me soon.
My jumbled and slow mind registered their conversation after it had started, and I had no idea how much of it I had missed.
"... brought Romero back."
"Yeah. That's why she left us in the first place, she went after him."
"But how did she know he was there? And don't bullshit and lie to me. I know you were in on it. You've been on edge and waiting for something. You were waiting for Ariel and Romero. That's why you didn't act surprised when Quinton left with the others. You knew what he was going to do. You knew and you kept it from me."
"I did what I had to for our girl. And I did what I had to for our family. I don't regret it, Damien. I trusted Quinton and I trusted Ariel. Now you've got to trust inme."
"How can I trust you when you kept things from me?"
"I'm sorry, okay? Is that what you want to hear?"
"It's a start."
The silence lasted so long I almost drifted off to sleep.
"What do you think happened to her while she was gone? She's different. There's something... broken inside her. Like how she was when she first came to us, but only worse."
"I don't know, Dame. But whatever it was, it was bad. Now we just need to figure out how to fix it."
"I think that's what Quinton is for. If anyone can get it out of her and help her, it'll be Quinton. They're two halves of a whole, those two. If anyone can fix her, it'll be him."
The last thought I had as I drifted off to sleep was that there were some things that not even the crazy, panty stealing Uncle Quinton could fix.
Chapter Twenty-One
I Wanted Fast And Hard
Ifelt them all come in throughout the night to check on me. They never got too close to the bed where I lay sleeping, and they didn't stay long at all. The only presence I didn't feel was Dash. I wasn't surprised but it definitely didn't feel good.
Tyson stayed the longest, and he only left when Damien woke up and very rudely told him to get the hell out of my bedroom before his creepy stalkerish ways woke me up. They argued for a while, but eventually Tyson left after threatening Damien. Damien didn't seem to give a crap and immediately fell back asleep after Tyson shut the door quietly behind him.
His regret and despair lingered behind him long after he'd gone. He'd said very cruel things to me, and now that he'd been filled in on what had really been going down, I imagined he felt a whole lot of things that did not feel good due to the things he'd said to me.
As much as I wanted to get up and chase after him to make things right, I couldn't bring myself to do it. I drifted back to sleep, safely ensconced between Damien’s and Julian's heat. They didn't leave me the entire night.
