She rolled her eyes with a huff.“Don’t you have something better to do than watch me sleep?”
A smile spread across my lips.“You’re the only priority I have from now on, babe.I’m with you twenty-four-seven.”
“No.”
“Yes.”
She folded her arms over her chest.“I don’t think so.”
“Yeah, I do.I’m the one who is going to make sure you are safe.”I leaned toward her.“No matter what.”
“What happened to compromising?”she asked.
“Me being with you is not something we are going to compromise on.My eyes are on you every minute of the day.”
“What about when I have to go to the bathroom?”she asked.
“I’ll be right outside the door.”
“As if something is going to happen in the bathroom, Cole.You are being way too overprotective.We don’t even know each other.”
“Yet.”
She tipped her head to the side.“Yet what?”
“You don’t know meyet.That will change over the next week.I’m going to find out what you like to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.How warm do you like your bath?Which side of the bed do you like to sleep on?Everything.”
“And I’m going to learn all of that about you?”she countered.“I figured you more for a shower guy.”
I chuckled.“I’m good with whatever gets me clean, babe.I’m open to trying anything once or twice.”
“Do you know you’re kind of annoying?”
“Calla may have mentioned it a time or two before.”If I hadn’t been an annoying brother, was I even a brother?
“And I’m sure she wasn’t wrong.”She settled back into the bed.“Do you think they are really going to go through with the girls’ night?I mean, if they can do that, why can’t they still do Eden’s grad party?”
I scoffed.“That is one hundred percent going to happen, babe.You give Alice and my mom even a little idea, and it’s done.Girls’ night is going to be way smaller than the grad party was going to be.You don’t even want to know all of the shit they had planned for that.”
“Won’t Eden be upset?”
I shook my head.“I can guarantee you that Eden is more than okay with not having her party right now.Her mom may be Alice, but they are hardly alike.She’s more like Wrecker and doesn’t need the spotlight on her.”
She hummed under her breath, and her eyes drifted shut.“Hopefully, the cops find the guys before I get discharged, and life can go back to normal.”
That was a big wish.“Yeah, that would be nice, babe.Just rest your eyes.”
“Okay,” she whispered.“But I’m not sleeping.”
I watched her drift off and her face relax.
I shifted my weight and leaned back in the chair, careful not to make a sound.
As long as she slept, I wasn’t going anywhere.
Chapter Seven
Star
