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But I can’t. I can’t take my eyes off her or let my mind settle.
Is this what Theo, Seb, Toby, and Dae—nope not going there—have every night? Do they literally cuddle up to the same person and fall asleep like this?
If it is, then I gotta say, it’s not as bad as I thought it would be.
Fuck. Who am I right now?
I’ve slept with women before… Okay, that’s a lie. I’ve slept with Brianna before. Everyone else has been sent away the second I was done with them. But we’ve always just passed out on our own sides of the bed in sated, sweaty, exhausted heaps. Most of the time, I’ve forgotten she’s there until she scares the shit out of me the next morning, or I wake up with a hazy memory of her presence but find that she’s already escaped, like she’s been prone to doing recently.
But this… this is… nice?
A silent laugh peals from my lips as I laugh at my own ridiculousness.
Maybe I should have just taken those pills.
But my own thoughts are nothing compared to the amusement I get when both Jodie and Toby slip into the room a little while later with bags in their hands.
Jodie’s eyes open so wide I’m sure they almost pop right out of her head at the sight of me with Brianna in my arms.
“Did someone give her a lobotomy while we were gone?” she finally whispers while Toby just studies our position with interest.
“You’re funny,” I hiss back.
“She literally wanted to kill you the last time I so much as mentioned your name. How did you go from that to… this?”
I give her a one-shouldered shrug, because fuck if I know.
“Brad the bellend came to visit,” I confess quietly. “I saw him leave and then found her crying.”
“He made her cry?” Toby asks, frowning.
“Nah,” Jodie says. “There’s no way he made her cry. She doesn’t care enough about him—”
“Aside from his magnificent cock,” I point out, quoting what Brianna has said to me many, many times when taunting me with her regular fuck buddy.
“I’m not sure even that is good enough to make her cry.”
“Anyway, she fell asleep like this, so…”
“You look cute,” Toby says, amusement dancing in his eyes. “How’s it feel to finally discover the joys of snuggling?”
“Fuck you,” I hiss, although there’s no heat in the threat, and if his smile is anything to go by, he hears every single one of my unspoken words.
Yes, I’m enjoying this, dickhead. Get over it.
“Okay, well, we just brought her some things. If you’re okay with her, we’re going to head home, but I’ll be back before I start work tomorrow.”
“Do you have any idea when she’s going to be discharged?” Toby asks.
I shake my head.
“Can you find out?” I ask, needing her out of here just as much as myself.
“Sure. And we’ll set up our guest room.”
“Wait, what?” I blurt.
“We’re not letting her go home while she’s still recovering,” Jodie says, rolling her eyes at me as if it’s obvious.
