“Hush,” Wolfe said firmly. “How is your stomach?”
“It feels like someone scraped it raw with a spoon.”
Wolfe didn’t like how pale she was. Aleki sat on the bed with her cradled on his lap and Wolfe knelt in front of them. He held the bottle to her lips again.
“Drink.”
“Don’t wanna drink. You can’t make me.”
Oh. She shouldn’t dare him.
Caleb stood next to them and leaned down to brush her hair back off her forehead. “She’s clammy but it doesn’t feel like she’s got a fever.”
“We should take it just in case,” Wolfe said.
She groaned. “Wolfe, you are not sticking anything up my bottom.”
“Hey, don’t knock it until you try it,” Aleki joked.
She glared up at him.
“I’m not ill. I think I just had a reaction to breakfast or something. I just wanna sleep. Please.”
Wolfe frowned but Caleb nodded. “Let’s get her cleaned up a bit. Then Aleki will stay with you, baby. He’ll watch over you.”
18
Vivi woke to the sound of someone singing.
She smiled as she recognized the song. It wasn’t something that anyone else would recognize. This song was just hers.
Vivi’s song.
The song Aleki wrote for her. Tears entered her eyes as he sang it quietly. He had the most amazing voice. His entire family did. When they got together there was so much laughter and singing. It had been a bit overwhelming when she first met them, but she’d been treated like one of the family. And soon, she’d been laughing. Dancing with each of his brothers, much to Aleki’s annoyance.
Even Wolfe relaxed a bit around the Samuels clan.
That was when she realized she was pressed up against a big, warm body. Aleki’s arm was around her, holding her tight and her face rested on his chest.
God, she’d missed this.
How had they come to be in bed together, though? And why did she feel like she’d been run over by a truck?
She groaned as it all flashed back to her. Nausea. Tears. Diarrhea. And the three of them knew. And now she was lying snuggling up to one of the most gorgeous guys she’d ever met and she hadn’t even brushed her teeth!
Moving her head, she realized there was a damp spot on his skin.
Had she been drooling on him? Would the humiliation never end?
Mortified, she sat up, then groaned as her head swum. She raised her hand to her eyes, trying to breathe through the nausea and dizziness.
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“Hey, easy,” Aleki soothed. “Shit. I was trying to wake you up slowly. Here, sit back.”
“I need to go brush my teeth,” she explained as he tried to ease her back against the headboard.
“That can wait. You’re not getting out of bed until the dizziness passes.”