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I bit down on my bottom lip, tears threatening to fall again. I shook my head.
“Le, there is nothing you can say right now that you can’t have. Tell me.”
“With all of you. I want someone to play with my hair. I like having my hair played with.”God, I felt like an emotional wreck.No one had played with my hair for years. I wanted their hands on me, stroking and soothing me.
“Stroking and soothing. We can do that.”
My eyes widened as I realized I’d just said all that out loud.
“Hey, let me make this really clear. Last night you gave us something precious, your body and your trust, and we let you down. We didn’t take care of you and that’s why you’re crashing, so there is nothing you can’t say or ask for. Do you hear me?”
“I hear you.”
“Right. Would you wear this to relax in?” he asked, looking at my outfit, and I shook my head. “So, what would you wear?”
“No underwear. I feel like I can’t breathe. Shorts, my hoodie, and my fluffy socks.”
“Come on, let’s get you changed while Daw makes you a plate of fruit and Marshall gets some blankets for the sofa and sets up a movie. Any preferences?”
“The Fast and the Furious. Can we start with the first one?”
He smiled and for the first time today, I felt more like myself.
Dawson
FoxliftedLeafromthe bench and carried her upstairs while my heart hammered in my chest. “How did I not know that was a thing?”
“Neither did I. You can’t blame yourself.”
“I fucking can if our behavior leaves someone I care about feeling like that.” I pointed to the space where Lea had been. “We did that to her.”
“The curse did that to her.”
I leaped from my seat, caging him in as I slammed my hand to the table and the back of the bench. “The curse probably isn’t real. Someone spiked us and we had questionable tattoos. If we are cursed, the most it’s doing is forcing us to stay together. Lea, in the state she’s in, that’s all on us, and if you can’t see that, then you’re not the man I thought you were.”
I watched his Adam’s apple bob. “This is all new to me.”
“And you know what’s going on with me… how do you think this is affecting me? For whatever reason, right now we’re a team, a pack, a family, Marshall. You have to see that.”
I stood, moving to the kitchen, pulling every piece of fruit I could find onto the counter, making Lea a platter of them all, along with a huge glass of iced water, and set them up on the coffee table. Marshall appeared next to me, adding pillows and blankets from one of the spare beds.
He looked up from where he was spreading them out. “I’m scared,” he whispered. I had so many questions but now wasn’t the time. This moment was about Lea and only Lea.
“You know what… me too, but we hurt our girl, so whatever else we’re feeling needs to go on the back burner until we fix her.”
“You’re right.”
Before we could say anything else, Fox walked back downstairs, Lea following behind, holding onto his hand, looking like a deer in the headlights and I hated that our night together had done that to her.
“When you’re feeling better, Sunshine, we need to talk. We need to do this properly. Safe words, limits, aftercare. Fuck, I can’t believe we got so caught up in this that we’ve not had this conversation.”
She nodded.
“Fox needs to shower. Come and sit with me and let me take care of you. How does that sound?”
She didn’t move. Marshall stepped up next to her, running his fingers down her arm. “Let Daddy take care of you, Sugar. I promise you’ll feel better and Fox will be back soon.”
She turned to look at him. “Will you stay, Marshall?”
