“It’s fine,” I said. “I got away before anything truly bad happened.” At his insistence, I then proceeded to explain exactly what Terry had done.
“He tried to touch you,” Nicholas growled. “He did touch you.”
“I left before anything could happen. I got myself out of that situation.”
After cleaning his wounds, I wrapped his hand in a sanitized white bandage. He held himself very still for me, though I could feel the tension buzzing under his skin.
The moment I fastened the bandage, securing it, he pulled me against his chest and wrapped his arms around me.
“I should have been there,” he said. “I’m sorry.”
“You can’t be there every minute. Besides he was so subtle about it, even Julian didn’t notice.”
Nicholas hummed, a deep rumble I felt in his chest against my ear.
“I’m worried,” I
