Stay with Me by Awesomekristii (primary phonics .TXT) 📕

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DELILAH 

“Fine, but I wouldn’t be sleeping alone. You're joining me.”

I gaped at him, my eyes widened and mouth half-open. Was he even being serious?

I shook my head frantically at him, my mind going almost numb at that thought. It’s already so overwhelming to be in the same room as his but being in the same bed... Heaven!

He shrugged, my eyes caught his wet hair strands falling over his forehead and my fingers itched to brush them away. “I couldn’t let you sleep in the couch…” he looked over at it, “That’s highly uncomfortable.”

Well… he agreed with me in that.

“But… we couldn’t sleep…” He raised his right eyebrow at me. “What? It’s not like we are going to have sex,” his lips in a small smirk, “until you want.”

My face burned at his words. I ducked my head low and looked for any way to escape this predicament. I could feel him rising up from his seat and moving towards the other side of the bed. He placed his pillow there, and grabbed his sheet from the couch.

My inside thudded at I looked at the two pillows kept in there, and the one hand distance between them. The bed was huge and there was maximum chances we could sleep on either side most happily.

Not having any other way out of this, I nodded at him. “Okay, let me take the left side.”

“As you wish.” I saw him removing his t-shirt before slipping into the sheets.

“Can't you keep that on?” He raised his head up and looked at the direction where my eyes were strained.

“I don’t like to sleep with anything on. I even did that when I was in the couch.” He didn’t bother to get anything and settled himself in the side of the bed.

I sighed, feeling the anticipation. This close to a man had been a bad experience for me, and not to mention the constant nightmares. I didn’t even trust myself in any thing.

Composing myself I walked to my side and slipped inside. The heater in the room was keeping it warm and cosy and feeling the soft mattress under me, I forgot the entire crisis for a second.

I looked at his side and found him already sleeping maybe. I couldn’t predict he was facing the other side. I eyed the distance between us and feeling less overwhelmed, I closed my eyes to sleep.

•••••

‘We will get you, baby girl.’

My eyes shot open as the words echoed in my ears like a broken record. Everything inside me felt like in the gulf of panic and fear. Since the day I had got the message, I couldn’t bring the words out of my head. They had nestled inside my head and the constant fear adding the nourishments.

I closed my eyes tightly, letting the abrupt feeling of fear to pass. I could feel the beads of sweats on my forehead and the anxiety settled inside me. It’s not easy trying to stay away from their radar. But how long? I shook my head lightly trying not to enter that thought process for now.

This would only make the rest of the night sleepless. I closed my eyes again trying to sleep, but I couldn’t. There was a constant tug in my heart, tightening the knots of fear and anxiety. I couldn’t rest myself without the words echoing in my ears.

Words, which were enough to scare me to death.

My eyes went to his hand resting over the space between us. It looked warm and inviting. My inside begged me to place my palms over them and intertwine our fingers like we did in the beach.

No one had ever brought me to beach before, neither did I ever travel there alone. I had seen and heard people going to beaches, the warm sunbathing and the cheerfulness settling.

However much I try, I couldn’t help myself feeling all the foreign emotions in me whenever he did another one of his kind works. He wasn’t a talked, not one to console you with his words but despite that his actions speaks for him.

In the darkness and coldness on his gazes, I had found the unknown sense of warmth, care and protection, which had never been one of those emotions I had ever felt before. Unknown totally.

Not thinking anything else, I lightly placed my palms over his inviting one. And warmth shot in my body, with the light jolt of electricity. Terrifyingly calming.

I looked at his face and found him sound asleep. His stretched and tight features, loosening and relaxed. There was a calm settling in them unlike the awakened times when there was always a storm brewing or a volcano flaring.

I pushed my fingers in between the gaps of his fingers to settled my palms more comfortably over them. It felt nice and just too good. My eyes looked at our joined hands and the size difference. His one hand was enough to cover my two.

I didn’t know how long I stared at them because the next second I found him turning towards my side and pulling our joined hands up before settling them under his chin. What..!

My eyes widened at that, feeling my heart accelerating in million beats per second. Next I know, his right muscled arm came over me before snaking them in my waist. He settled himself comfortably pulling me more towards him.

I could feel his warmth radiating towards me. One of his hand joined with mine was settled under his chin while the other was around my waist and overall I was trapped in between his muscular arms and naked chest.

The thought was enough to heat up my cheeks to the highest Celsius. I couldn’t help my widened eyes to stare at him. Up close his sharp features looked more prominent. More handsome and more hauntingly beautiful.

From the sharp jaws to his aquiline nose, the long eyelashes casting a shadow over his bronze skin made him so beautiful. I could see a long scar running down from down his earlobes to the shoulders. It wasn’t too deep to be prominent but the mark showed it was deep once and was starting to fade now.