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“Can you not stare?” I snap at Valen. His roaming gaze made me self–conscious. My body was not what he would be used to, my stomach wasn’t flat, my hips had faint stretch marks and my boobs didn’t sit perky on my chest anymore. My body was ruined from carrying Valarian. While he stood looking like he just stepped out of a sports magazine all hard chiseled muscle and tan complexion while my skin was pale in comparison and I looked frumpy.
“Does my staring bother you?”
“Ah, yeah. I wouldn’t have said it if it didn’t,” I tell him, turning away from him.
“You have had a baby, that doesn’t make you look any less appealing, Everly, so don’t shy away from me now,” he says, putting his head under the shower spray to rinse the shampoo from his hair.
Easy for him to say, I don’t have exes for him to compare himself against. Whereas I have seen the girls in the papers that he kept on his arm, even met one of them. As if I wouldn’t feel inadequate compared to their perky fit bodies while I looked like used goods.
I quickly wash before hopping out and wrapping a towel
around myself. Valen leisurely moves about as he got out,
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uncaring that he was standing around naked in front of me but unlike him, I avert my gaze instead of gawking and keep my eyes strictly above his pecs.
I yanked his shirt over my head before undoing the towel when I realized the pants were gone.
When I try to leave the bathroom Valen steps into my path. Moving the other way, he does the same thing. “Trying to escape me?”
“Valen, I am tired, please. I don’t want to play these stupid games, just move aside,” I tell him.
“Always so serious.”
“And you’re always annoying me, please move.”
“I will but you have to sleep in the bed with me.”
I shake my head and he folds his arms across his chest and looks down at me.
“No.”
“Fine, we will sleep here then,” he shrugs before leaning against the door and with a devious smile on his lips, and I glare at him.
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“Fine, but I want the bathtub, you can have the floor,” I huff before turning around and walking over to it. Somehow, I don’t think his OCD ass would cope with sleeping on the wet floor.
“Are you really that damn stubborn?” Valen asks.
“Yep,” I tell him, popping the P.
Valen growls behind me, and I climb into the bathtub. I have slept in worse places, but I know he hasn’t. He would not last long.
“Everly!”
“Valen!” I retort. His growl bounces off the tiled walls before he suddenly yanks me out of the tub.
“Good thing I am also stubborn. Would you look at that we have something in common, and you are sleeping with me,” Valen growls while I struggle to get out of his grip.
“Valen,” I snap. My fists hit his chest and as he tries to pull me from the tub. He laughs before tossing me over his shoulder. I bang on his back before digging my elbows into it.
“You can be a jerk.”
“Imagine Valarian’s little face when he finds you in my bed
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“That is guilt tripping, and you know it, don’t use our son to get what you want.”
“What I want is for my mate to sleep in the same bed as me, I never said I would try to sleep with you, but your squirming is making it rather difficult”
I dig my elbows in deeper and his back arched as he walks up the hall toward his room, he pushes his bedroom door open with his foot, and I growl at him.
“Do I need to find something to tie you down with or will you behave?”
“Do that and you will wanna sleep with a towel wrapped around your fucking neck.”
“Why would I do that?”
“To stop me cutting while you sleep,” I snap at him.
“Then I definitely tying you to the bed.”
I growl, my legs and arms flailing. I stop and growl at him.
“Fine, but I am the big spoon,” I tell him.
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“Take it or leave it,” I tell him before I am dumped on the bed. A squeak escapes my lips at the motion and I growl while he chuckles at me.
“Fine, you can be the big spoon,” Valen growls as he climbs on the bed, tugging the covers back before climbing underneath them.
“I was happy to just share the bed with you, but hey if you want to hug me, I will take it,” Valen tells me, and I roll my eyes at him but climb underneath his blankets.
Gosh, his bed is comfortable, like a cloud. I would never ever agree to take the couch again. I now realize how
uncomfortable my bed was, which I had always thought was comfortable. I was pretty certain he just ruined my bed for me
now.
“Ah, are you forgetting something? What about spooning me?” Valen laughs.
“I’m too comfortable to move now,” I yawn before feeling the bed shift under his weight. Valen pushes my shoulder wanting me to roll on my side, but I was actually considering biting him for moving me. Although the warmth he offered made me wiggle back against him.
“I prefer being the big spoon,” he says, snuggling against me.
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He shrieks when I jam my freezing cold feet between his thighs.
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“How can your feet be cold when you just had a shower?” he growls and I snicker.
“If you want to be the big spoon, you also get to be my feet warmer.” His chest vibrates against my back with his growl. But he doesn’t move, instead pressing closer. I can’t help but succumb to sleep.
The sound of my phone ringing in the living room wakes me. Valen groans behind me and I blink around at the room to find it still dark but could see the slither of light peeking out the sides of the thick black out curtains. “Turn it off” Valen snarls while pressing his face into the back of my neck.
I yawned about to toss the blankets back and climb out to retrieve when I realized the tune playing isn’t my alarm, but my ringtone. The noise cuts off mid tune.
“Thank God,” Valen mumbles when it starts blaring again and I sit upright. Valarian’s voice reaches my ears.
“Hey Aunty Macey,” Valarian says from the living room. I peek over at the bedside table to see Valen’s phone on charge and I wiggled out of his grip to snatch it off. I press the power button and the screen lit up telling me it was midday. A gasp escapes and I lurched upright.
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“Valen, get up we slept in,” I snap at him before hitting his shoulder just as I hear Valarian’s footsteps run up the hall toward the bedroom. The door opens further.
“Mom, Aunty Macey said she needs to speak to you about Zoe,” Valarian says, holding the phone out I take it, placing it to my ear.
“Hey, I am sorry I am late |–”
“Amber and Micah just rang Zoe and said they are on their way to get Casey,” she says, and I can hear the alarm in her
voice.
“What!?” I say, jumping out of bed. I race to Valen’s dresser and open drawers before grabbing the first set of pants I laid my hands on. I rip them up legs.
“I am not at the hotel, Zoe rang me hysterical. I am stuck at the morgue, I need you to get to her,” Macey sobs.
“I’m on my way,” I say breathlessly before pausing. “Wait, why are you at the morgue?” My stomach lurches.
“They think they found Emily, an officer picked me up to identify her.”
“Her son?” I ask, fearing the worst.
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“I have no idea, get to Zoe,” Macey says, hanging up. My head spins and Valarian stares up at me worriedly.
“Is Aunty Zoe alright? I didn’t want to wake you,” Valarian cries as Valen looks around confused.
“What’s going on?” he yawns.
“I need your keys, I have to get back to the hotel,” I tell him.
“Stay with your father, I will be back,” I tell Valarian before rushing out the door. I snatch his keys off the bench and herald for the door just as Valen comes out carrying our crying son.
“Everly, what’s going on?”
“Micah’s mate found out about Casey, Zoe needs me over at the hotel.”
“Is everything alright?” I look at Valarian not wanting to say much in front of him especially since I don’t exactly know what’s going on. All I know is I let Zoe down. I should have gone home and told her last night about what Officer Richards had said.
“I will send Marcus to meet you, Go. I will meet you over there.”
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I nod and rush toward the front door, hoping I’m not too late.
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