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“Us?”
“Kobe, your father and me.”
“Oh.” He nodded. “I’m glad you’re the one who is here now.”
“You are?”
“Yeah,” he said softly. “I opened my eyes and saw you sitting there, sleeping.” He chuckled. “You looked so uncomfortable. Somehow that comforted me.”
I snorted. “Why am I not surprised to find that you are comforted by my discomfort?”
He let out a soft laugh. “I wasn’t comforted by your discomfort. I was comforted by the fact that you would bother to be uncomfortable just to be here with me. I was comforted just knowing that you were here.”
He reached out to take a tentative hold of my hand.
“How are you feeling?” I said, so acutely aware of the touch of his skin against mine.
“Okay, I guess. A little queasy.”
“You had some awful nightmares,” I said. “You really had me worried for a while.”
He looked at me funny and I could tell that he remembered the nightmares he’d had. I wanted to ask him about them but didn’t want to force him to relive that.
Over the course of the next few days, we spent a lot of time together. I fixed his meals as he slowly recuperated and gained strength.
He never brought up the nightmares and I just couldn’t help but think that he was covering up for someone. That he was protecting someone.
Someone who’d touched him.
Someone who’d hurt him.
And I knew exactly who it was.
Chapter 20
Layla
