Page 33 of Yours Suddenly

After he fucks me so hard I almost lose consciousness, I collapse on the bed, exhausted. We cuddle and then he kisses my forehead, leaving me to rest so he can go to his office for a short meeting.

I fall asleep, but then a nightmare has me wake up screaming.

The bodies of my family are still vivid in my mind as my phone rings. It's Roman.

“Hey, baby,” he drawls. “I miss you already.”

My throat is closed up.

“Baby?” Worry threads his voice.

“I…” I pant.

“Hold on, I'm coming there.”

I can hear the voices of the other men in the background. Tristan, Logan and other unfamiliar people. He's still in the meeting.

“No, it's fine,” I breathe out.

“I'll be there in a second,” Roman says. I hear sounds of confusion in the background.

“Where are you going?” an unfamiliar voice says.

Roman doesn’t answer.

“But — but —” the person says, and I hear a door close.

“You still there, baby?”

“Roman,” I say. “I — you didn't have to —”

“I'm almost there,” he says. He only hangs up the phone after he walks into the room.

“What happened?” He sits on the edge of the bed, searching my face, bringing his fingers to my chin. “Talk to me.”

I gulp. “I just had a nightmare.”

“Come here. You want to talk about it?”

I open my mouth and close it as he holds me in his arms.

“The dream… it was about my family. It's like I was back in the hospital again, identifying their bodies and —”

He slips his shoes off and slides into the bed with me.

“I'm here,” he says.

“I miss them so much,” I tell him.

“You'll see them again,” he says, assuringly. “Trust me.”

His words comfort me with the way he sounds so certain.

“We'll see them all, all the people we've lost.” He presses his lips to my forehead and the panic that seized me begins to melt away…

I'm slowly dozing off when his phone starts ringing, making me jerk awake. He makes a growl of annoyance and puts the ringing on silent.

“You should get that,” I say.

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