THIRTEEN
WITH THEIR HUNGERS for food and s*x sated, they lay in bed together in the dark. Pressed tight to his side, her head tucked under Danny’s chin, he slept with both arms around her. She didn’t know why he liked to hold her so close. For her, at first, it was strange. As was spending so many nights with the same man. But after living with Danny, she wasn’t sure she’d know how to sleep any other way. Certainly not in the trailer.
Sometimes she’d wake in the night and he wouldn’t be in bed with her. For such an easygoing guy, his insomnia was a surprise. He’d always come back to bed if she asked him to, even if it was just to hold her until she was out again.
That night, Tess was having her own trouble falling asleep.
“Danny,” she murmured, pointing a fingertip up on his clavicle.
