“You didn’t. Everly did texting you at three in the morning. I’ll take it up with her tomorrow.”
“I’m sure she’ll love that. Grady’s the lawyer but the only reason she married him was to have someone to argue with.”
“Shh,” he put his hands against her lips. “You talk too much. Go to sleep.”
She lay there listening to his breath even out. She was wide awake now and she stretched her fingers across his bare abdomen to hug him back. Why did it all just feel too familiar and right? Nine years ago, she had loved him desperately and had been too terrified to tell him. Then she’d hated him. Yet, as if there had been no time to have passed since the last time, he’d held her while she slept, she felt comfortable in his arms. His leg was heavy over her thigh and his heartbeat was a steady rhythm
