Page 24 of Sleepless Pact

“I didn’t hurt her,” Gary mutters.“I was trying to help.”I can’t even look his way.“I love her mother, but she’s...”He lets out a sob before he finishes his sentence.“Changed.”

“Audrey’s scared of you,” Phillip hisses at him.He wants to know what Gary might’ve done to me, but he didn’t do anything except what my mom ordered.

When my hands are free, I fling myself at Phillip, wrapping my arms and legs around him in the tightest hold.

“I helped you save her,” Gary pushes, but I have no clue what he’s talking about.

“You came for me?”I ask Phillip while I bury my face in his neck.

“I’ll always come for you.”He holds me snug against him, and I feel him kiss my temple.

“Please, just help her,” Gary says, but before I can ask who he means, my mother’s loud scream echoes down the hallway.

“No one will ever hurt you again,” Phillip reassures me, but my entire life my mother has been an unstoppable force.

“She’ll tell you I’m crazy,” I whisper to Phillip.“I’m not sure she’s wrong.”I hate to admit it, but it’s true.It’s hard to know what’s right and wrong because my world is a jumbled mess.

“Audrey!”my mother screams before rushing into the room.

David releases Gary to grab her, and when I don’t see Gary trying to help my mother, I’m confused.Gary stands there motionless as he tells her he’s sorry and my mother screams and kicks.Gary pleads with her that she needs help, but she’s flailing in David’s hold.

“No!”she screeches, pointing at me.“She needs help.Save her!”

Phillip’s hand comes to the back of my head and forces me to look away.He whispers sweet words of reassurance in my ear, and then the room goes quiet.When I look up I see it’s only the two of us and I don’t know what to say.

“I might be crazy,” I admit again.

“I don’t care.”He rests his forehead on mine.“I love you.Crazy or not.”

“You love me?”I can’t tell if it’s his heartbeat or mine that’s roaring in my ears.

“You’re my wife.How could I not love you?”

“Right,” I agree as my eyes fill with tears.

To Phillip, it didn’t matter who I was.Only that I belonged to him.

I do.The same as he will always belong to me.

Epilogue

PHILLIP

Ten years later…

“Say it.”I move my lips to the inside of my wife’s thigh and bite the tender skin there.

“Phillip,” she moans, and I smile but shake my head.

“Not good enough.”My tongue drags along the seam where her leg meets her pussy, and I tease the both of us.“Say it.”

“I’m yours,” Audrey moans as she rocks her hips upward.She’s seeking my mouth, and I want nothing more than to give it to her.Well, almost nothing.

“Say it.”

The growl she lets out is adorable, like a wet kitten.Speaking of wet kitten, I lick the outside of her pussy lips and then gently blow on her clit.

“You’re driving me crazy.”

---