His thumb moved across my cheek sweetly. But a tear rolled out of my eye and hit his thumb.
He moved to me and pulled me tight against him and it took everything inside of me to not recoil.
This was my husband. Being in his arms was my most favorite place in the world. Why was I feeling like this?
“You shook up? I shouldn’t vent at you. Sorry, baby. I don’t want you to be scared. We got this. It’s all gonna be okay. Some way. We’ll get Holly safe. We’ll all be safe. Don’t say anything to Angel. Dare has to handle that delicately with her while we figure out what to do.”
I nodded and tried to pull away, “Gotta go to the bathroom.”
He watched me scoot out of the bed with a strange look on his face.
Tommy
“You feel all right, Tia?”
“Yep.”
“I scare you tonight?” I asked when she was climbing back into the bed. She’d been in the bathroom a long while.
I moved over closer to her. She was tense, apprehensive.
“What is it?” I pulled her right against me.
She was acting weird.
“You shook up?”
“I guess. I’m sleepy. I’ll see you in the morning.”
I cocked her leg, pulling her knee up so that her leg draped over me.
“I need you, baby.” I put my lips to her jaw and moved them to her ear, “Just need to lose myself in you for a bit.” I hadn’t been inside her in what felt like forever.
“Sorry, I…” she pulled back, “I can’t.”
“Queasy?” I asked.
She nodded. But she was lying to me; I could feel it in her body language.
I twisted the dial for the lamp and looked at her. Her eyes were swollen and her face was blotchy like she’d spent the night crying.
“Talk to me,” I demanded.
“Just tired.”
“No. Talk to me right fucking now. Tessa tell you something else? Something I don’t know? Don’t lie to me, Tia. I need to know everything. Don’t worry about me getting arrested or hurt, I’m not that stupid. Just spill whatever you’re hiding.”
“I’m not hiding anyth---”
“Bullshit.”
“She went to bed when you left. She didn’t say anything else.”
“Should I wake her and ask?”
“Don’t wake her, she was exhausted. She…”
“Fucking spill or I will and if you think I won’t be pissed at you…”