Page 13 of Lost in the Light

“It’s not stupid. Youaresafe when I hold you. I’d never allow anyone to hurt you.” She smiled weakly and nodded.

“I know that,” she confirmed, filling me with a strange sense of pride that I made her feel safe.

“Good.” I laid back into the pillows behind me, then grabbed Addy’s hips and lay her on top of me. She gasped a little, but didn’t fight me.

“I can’t lie here. I’ll squash you,” she argued, but even as she spoke she was settling her legs between mine and laying her head on my chest.

“Enough crazy talk, baby. Get comfortable,” I ordered instead.

“I like when you call me ‘baby,’” she sighed as she settled against me, her ear right over my chest where I knew she could hear my heart beat.

“Good.”

“Did Ash and Eli go to bed?” she asked, already sounding sleepy.

“Yes. I made them get some rest. They’re fine for now,” I assured her.

“That’s good. You’re amazing at taking care of us all. Thank you, Adam.”

“You don’t need to thank me for that. Just close your eyes and sleep, okay? Jordan and I have everything under control.”

“’kay,” she mumbled, then her body fully relaxed as her breaths evened out and I knew she was asleep. She fit so perfectly against me as I wrapped my arms a little tighter around her. It was like she was made for me. But I couldn’t shake the thought of just how perfectly she seemed to fit with my brother too.Theywere made for each other. I couldn’t take that from them, even if it would kill me to let her go.

ADDY

I woke up abruptly, but this time not from a nightmare. No, it was the heat that had awoken me. I was so damned hot I felt like I was starting to burn up. My eyes snapped open and I found myself looking at a bare chest – no, not looking, pressed right up against.

It came back to me then, waking from the nightmare and falling back asleep laid on top of Adam. He had made the world’s most comfortable mattress, and I didn’t even remember falling back asleep. Had I been crushing him all night?

I placed my hands on the bed either side of the broad chest and lifted up enough to apologize to Adam, who likely couldn’t breathe by this point, but it wasn’t Adam I found watching me with a sleepy smile on his face.

“Jordan?”

“Morning, princess,” he replied, his voice a little hoarse from sleep and so sexy sounding. I looked from his sleepy face and back down to his bare chest below me. He wasn’t as wide as his brother, but he was definitely muscular. I couldn’t stop myself from following down the chiseled lines on his chest, down his abdomen and to…Thank God. He’s wearing shorts!There was no disappointment there. Nuh-uh. None at all.

“You want a picture, babe? We could take some together?” Jordan teased, snapping me from my heat inducing thoughts.

“Ass!” I cried playfully as I slapped his rock hard chest.

“I think we’re a bad influence on you. You’ve been cursing up a storm lately,” he chuckled.

“I have not!” I cried.

“You said ‘bastard’ yesterday. Heard it myself.”

“Well, I had good cause for that,” I pointed out. “Where’s Adam and how did you get there?”

“We switched in the middle of the night so Adam could get some sleep. You barely stirred when I picked you up from Adam and laid you on my chest. Did you sleep okay?”

“Better than I have in weeks,” I answered honestly. “Sorry. I should move. Can you even breathe?” I tried to slide off of him, but he wasn’t having it. He wrapped his arms tighter around me and held me in place.

“Of course I can breathe. You don’t weigh anything,” he scoffed. “Stay right there. I like you against me like that, unless you’re uncomfortable?”

“Definitely not.” I lay my head against his bare chest again and took in the faint smell that was all him. There was a smattering of hair on his chest and I ran my fingers over it, loving how coarse and tickly it felt.

“I think we should sleep like this every night if it makes you sleep better,” he told me.

“As nice as that sounds, I don’t think it’s practical,” I laughed.

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