Page 86 of Stolen Kiss

“I’ll do it for you every day if you let me,” he told me, his voice rough.

“That’s a big commitment,” I told him quietly.

Saying that meant he was thinking of being in my life every day for however long I would be on this earth. Did he mean that?

“You should know, I don’t say things like this lightly,” he added.

I paused. Then I said softly, “Okay.”

I could hear a smile in his voice when he parroted, “Okay.”

* * *

We wentto sleep pretty early after that.

I must have been more tired than I’d thought, because I couldn’t remember much that happened when Jensen finally crawled into bed with me.

He had turned off the lamp by his side and pulled me close into his body, his arms wrapped tightly around my waist.

“Sleep, baby,” he said, and that was what I did.

I slept soundly, dreamlessly, and wonderfully.

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