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I breathe easy. I honestly thought she would have trouble. Ever since that motherfucker stepped foot in my house when she was here alone, she has had trouble... like yesterday when she couldn’t be in the rest of the house on her own, even though I was just in a different room.
“It’s okay.” I cover her with the duvet and try to pull her closer to me, but she resists. I don’t have time for this. I wrap my arm around her plump body and pull her towards me, holding her there until she starts relaxing.
“Goodnight, Suki.”
I hear her exhaling a breath she seemed to have been holding for a while and with that her body relaxes further. Fuck, I wish I could hear what’s happening in that beautiful brain of hers.
“Goodnight, Niklas.”
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I open my eyes, facing the windows, and the sunshine is so strong I feel the need to hide under the covers. I'm half expecting Suki to be downstairs again, but the delicate arm wrapped around my waist from behind says otherwise.
Her breathing is calm and soft. I hear a noise that could be mistaken for purring, but it’s the slightest, softest snore I have heard in my entire life, and I know for a fact that she's still sleeping. I know I take her on a fucking rollercoaster ride every single day and most of it is intentional, some of it is not, mainly because my decision about her is not completely made. But... she learned the rules of my game and she's now playing it in her favor, because I feel like I'm losing.
I feel like I'm the one being played... At this point I'm not sure if it's involuntary or intentional.
Am I ever going to get tired of this view? I watch as the sunlight hits the tops of the trees that run down the mountain towards the valleys, and I wonder when I started liking the sunrise more than the sunset... Was it when I started waking up with her in this house?
I put my hand over hers and I feel her warm body shift behind me. She's pressed onto me, making me the little spoon, even though with her ridiculously short frame, her head barely reaches above the middle of my back. But she's spooning me... my ass in her lap and she wiggles, wrapping herself around me even more.
I could get used to this. I really could. Even though I would have never thought I could be the type... interesting.
I squeeze her hand a little harder and her whole body tenses in an instant. She's awake. She attempts to pull her hand away, but there's no way I'm allowing it. I hold it there.
“Good morning.” I want to make sure she knows I'm awake, and I'm pushing her to accept that she was the one seeking me.
“Umm... good morning...” her voice sounds a little rougher in the morning, and I like that I'm noticing this.
I shake myself mentally, baffled at the fact that it is me having these thoughts. It's hard to believe, I'm not entirely sure who this person is to be honest...
“I did not mean to...” she starts speaking again, “to...”
“Go in the other room without saying goodnight?” I interrupt.
“Umm... I...”
“Or coming into my bedroom anyway?” I interrupt again.
“I...” she tries again.
“Or spooning me during the night?” I do it again, and it's getting hard to keep the laughter in. I'm not even sure what I find funny, I have no idea, but I can't stop myself. My chest starts vibrating and my cheeks feel like they're on fire.
“You bastard!” She catches on, and I feel her small free hand slapping the back of my head.
It takes me a second to use the arm wrapped around me to pull her over as I turn on my back and she lands on top of me. She tries to brace herself, but it was too fast and she's here, the real Suki, looking at me in sleepy shock since she didn't get a chance to put her guard up yet. Messy hair falling in front of her and on my chest, big, beautiful eyes looking into mine, her gorgeous, soft body laid on top of me. I can't help myself, and I just start laughing as I hold her here, my arms wrapped around her.
“So? What didn't you mean to do, little siren?” I finally ask as she slaps my chest again.
She lets out a loud breath, and her lips almost pout before she quickly realizes what she was doing and straightens her face.
“You are being a dick. I was trying to be nice...”
I wanna smack her ass so hard right now, but I'm staying away.
“I did not mean any of it...” she finally speaks.
I stop laughing.
