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I settle my head against his shoulder, draw the blankets around us, and slide into the most restful sleep I’ve had in years.
Easy when I finally feel safe.
Because as long as I’m with Grant, nothing bad will happen.
Nothing else can hurt us besides my own desperate mistakes.
9
ONE AND DONE (GRANT)
This is new.
Waking up with warm flesh curled against me, tucked so close in this lush weight at my side.
What the hell?
I know it’s her before I even open my eyes.
I know Ophelia’s scent.
I know her feel.
I know how she takes up space with just her presence. This aura surrounds her until even when we’re not touching, it’s like Ifeelher with every tortured inch of my body.
Worse, I now know how she tastes when I damn well shouldn’t.
The only question left is why she felt the need to crawl into bed with a desperate, chaotic fuck who can’t keep his lips to himself.
I blink my eyes open slowly, lifting my head and trying not to jostle her as I glance down at her.
I don’t remember falling asleep, but I must have dozed like the dead while I was waiting for her to finish putting Nell to bed.
The fact that I’m buried under multiple blankets with no recollection of piling them on?
That brings back memories from half a lifetime ago.
She always thought I was asleep during those calm nights ages ago when she’d creep up on me and fix the covers over me after I’d kicked them around in a mess.
Every time, I felt her cover me.
I knew.
I just kept stock-still so she wouldn’t run or die of embarrassment.
Same way I hold still now, letting myself take her in.
She forms this compact bundle like a house cat, small and soft against my side.
Considering how we come at each other with our teeth bared so often, it warms something inside me to know she trusted me enough to settle in this close.
Especially after how awkward last night got—how reckless I made it.
Still can’t believe she just kissed me out of the blue like that.
Still can’t believe I kissedher.
