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“Shhh,” I whisper. “It’s ok. No one’s leaving. You’re safe.” I reach out a hand, just meaning to rub her shoulder, maybe hold her hand. But she moves into my touch, until she’s curled into my chest, head nestled under my chin.
I rub her back and she calms down.
I know I should pull back. Roll away. Give her space. Amelia would never be curling into me like this if she was awake.
I’m about to pull back when Amelia murmurs, “Don’t make me leave, Cole.”
My heart trips over itself.
She’s dreaming about me. And in the dream, I’m turning my back on her.
“I won’t,” I promise, stroking her hair. “I won’t, sweetheart.”
“The purple dinosaurs will get me,” she says. And then she mumbles a string of truly unintelligible words.
So maybe it doesn’t mean anything that she’s dreaming about me. Maybe it doesn’t mean anything at all.
But I don’t pull away. Instead, I fall asleep, cradling her against my chest.
12
AMELIA
Iwake up with a heavy masculine arm draped over my waist, and the drowsy warmth of someone strong and solid at my back.
Cole.
The memory shoots through me as I remember where I am—and who I’m in bed with. I give myself one moment to savor all that luxurious, masculine heat at my back. I’m only human.
Then I try to slip away.
It doesn’t work. Instead, Cole tightens his arm, pulling me flush against him, instinctively nuzzling into my neck. I shift against him, and that’s when I realize he’s hard.
Deliciously hard.
My mouth goes dry.
Meanwhile, he’s inhaling the scent of my shampoo like it’s his personal drug.
Waking up next to Cole is already sexier than some of the actual sex I’ve had in my life.
I try again to wiggle away, but it’s no good. Sleepy Cole is strong and disinclined to let go of what he wants.
“Cole,” I say softly. “Cole, you need to wake up.”
He grumbles into my neck, and I shiver. There’s something fundamentally erotic about a man who holds you tight and doesn’t let go.
Honestly, the bar for men is so low.
“Cole,” I bark.
“What,” he mumbles.
“Let go of me,” I say.
“You said you didn’t want me to,” he mumbles.
Huh?
