Even if it was a dream it was too late...
"Because I didn't want to leave you alone, I would have been worried about you all night," he said with such tenderness as his hand that was on my waist moved to my cheek, and he cupped them in his palms. I could feel she was worried but why! What did it have to do with him now, what if I told him, that it was all because of his lover only!
I did not say a word, I had nothing to say, all this tenderness, this care, this worry, what did it an! Was it guilt? Was it sympathy, I did not want to know, but then I did not want to take it as affection too.
"You are still tired, try to sleep again, Mari," he said taking his hand away from my cheeks, and I took a breath of relief, but in the next mont, his hands touched my hairs, as he slowly started running a hand in them, patting in between like my mother used to do when I was young.
It felt so better, so relaxing, my eyes turned heavy again.
"I should not be here '' I whispered, haven't we lost the right to sleep together last night?
What an irony, when I was her wife, he never preferred to sleep with , and now when he was the one who wanted to spend his life with soone I was in his arms.
"I know, I would apologise to you later, but for now, try to sleep," he said with such warmth and softness that I nodded without even thinking.
Let it go, I would fight with him once I gained my energy and strength back. I drifted to sleep when I felt his chest touching , his warmth made feel secure, and for once cared.
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Cassius POV
Thank goodness that she slept again, otherwise, I would not have been able to behave normally for a long ti. My heart was throbbing so fast when she pinched , I had never thought that just a single touch of her would make shiver. It was like a bolt of electricity had hit my body. I wanted to pin her on the bed and tell her the result of her actions, but then she would have only raised her hand again, I chuckled when I rembered how daring she was!
It took all my strength to behave normally when she was this close to , that her breaths were touching my body, she had been here in this bed for a whole year before, but we had never shared this proximity.
Now I was not able to decide that calling Killian to share the bed was a good idea or a foolish one. If he would not have been here, we would have been sleeping on the corners like always.
This proximity was like sweet torture. My hands were on her waist all the ti and her head was on my chest. I could hear her heart beating and her deep breath even tickling my skin. My body was burning with all the touches, yet I knew this was just a coincidence, a sweet yet painful coincidence. The love in her heart had died down a long ti ago and soone else had taken its place.
I was too late in knocking her heart, now all I could do was cherish this mont! seeping the warmth in her body as a part of for her to rember.
The way we were sleeping together made it feel like we were a small happy family.
Her smooth soft skin made unable to sleep, yet I felt intoxicated, with the touch. I closed my eyes as I let my sense of touch work better for . I knew that she was asleep when she started snuggling with . She must be moving toward the warmth, as both Killian and she had kicked and thrown the blankets long ago.
I shook my head at the habits they were sharing these days. I tried to move to pick up the blanket when her hold on my waist tightened.
"Dont go" she whispered and I was stunned, I looked back and sighed when I saw she was sleeping, I laid back as she took hold of my robe, moving it further towards her.
I knew she was surely going to bla for all this, but how good it had been if she had said that to .
Was she imagining as soone else! I shook my head to get rid of all those thoughts, even if she was imagining as soone else, I was the first one to abandon her, I was the one who had announced that I would never love her back, so I could not bla her. What's the benefit of becoming that kind of husband, who did not love their wife, yet expect them to be loyal and devoted all their life.
The one whom I devoted my life to, was not mine in the end, how could I expect soone else to be so.
But then the way she was holding and asking to not go, still had a strong effect on , I laid back and took the bell from the side table and shook it.
Her face furrowed listening to the noise, so I gently patted her back, only then did I rember her back was bare. I imdiately took my hand back, I did not want to cross, that would make guiltier.
"Your highness" greeted Clara entering.
"Take the blanket and cover both of them."
"Yes, your highness"
She covered them with blanks and bowed, then left the room.
I looked at her who was snuggled to and closed my eyes, taking her further in my embrace.
"I will make sure you will get your share of happiness, Marianne," I murmured as she smiled in her sleep.
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