8. The icing on the cake.
Katarina.
"How did you get that scar?" I ask him, turned sideways as I stare at the wall.
Sometime during the night I woke up to find myself in Killian's arms. Carefully, I turned away from him and stayed deep in thought until he woke up. I knew he woke up because his fingers began to play with the strands of my hair. He began to stretch my tresses in his fingers, untangling knots silently, saying nothing.
However, Killian stops the movement of his fingers as soon as he hears my voice. He thought I was still asleep. I almost think he's going to pull his touch away now that he knows of my wide awake state, but he sighs audibly and yields to his caress. Then his fingers continue their task. He patiently moves a lock of hair away from my shoulder and continues
