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Although the bed might have only just been big enough for the likes of him and the other prisoners, it swamped me. It wasn’t a king-size, or even queen size, but roughly one and a half times the size of a regular single bed back home.
More than big enough for me but nowhere near big enough for him. With the two of us sharing the one bed, it was even worse.
Usually, it resulted in me being crushed by an oversized muscular leg or an arm wrapped around me like a teddy bear. I’d long since learned the most comfortable position to sleep with these giants was on top with my head balanced on their chest.
Trayem took a seat where I patted as I rose into a sitting position.
“I have a favor to ask you,” I said.
“What is it?”
“After last night, I still feel a little tired.”
I gave him a shy smile.
He smiled and placed a hand on my leg, outlined by the shape of the blanket wrapped around it.
“Would you mind if we—” I said. “What I mean to say is—”
He surprised me when he spoke at first and finished my question for me.
“If we take it easy tonight? Of course. I assumed that would be the case. It’s not every day there’s a riot in this prison. We were lucky to have survived through it. I still feel a little tired myself.”
After his fight with the gang and his other battle in the fighting pit, that should certainly have been true, but his eyes seemed very bright and his movements were not sluggish or slowed with exhaustion as I’d expected.
He stood up and rubbed at his wet hair with a towel.
I leaned back, relieved he didn’t mind us not having sex tonight.
“You look surprised I said that,” Trayem said.
“I just thought…” I said, shaking my head. “Never mind.”
“I guess most fighters would have refused. But I’m not most fighters.”
No, he wasn’t. I was quickly learning that to be the case.
He stripped off his clothes and, quite comfortable with his naked form, stood before me, his muscles hard and toned, his body built for fighting.
Among other things.
He really was a fine specimen. The other prisoners were built too but they lacked his grace. Then there was his kind eyes and gentleness to contend with.
Perhaps, in another time and another place, something might have happened between us.
But not here. Not now.
I gripped the edge of the blankets and pulled them up for him to slip into the bed beside me. Doing so revealed the long black T-shirt and pants I’d borrowed from him.
A grin curled his features and he burst out laughing.
“What?” I said, looking down at my clothes. “I’m comfortable.”
“Would you like a couple of padlocks to make sure I don’t take advantage of you in the middle of the night?”
Okay, so I might have gone a little overboard with my preparations to ensure we slept and nothing else happened but my current getup really wasn’t much different from what I usually wore when I went to bed alone.
He climbed into bed beside me and immediately wrapped his arm around my head so I could sleep more comfortably across him.
