“Penny, what are you doing up so early?” My voice came out croaky and strange. I sounded desperate. I tried to swallow down the insecurities. She came home. She was still here. I took another deep breath and the pain in my chest eased.
Her eyes flitted to mine in the darkness. “I couldn’t sleep.” There was something alarming in her voice. Pain. Emotion. Fear. I was by her side in a second, putting my arms around her, hoping that they somehow helped ease her hurt.
“What happened? Is everything okay?”
She quickly wiped tears away from beneath her eyes. “It’s nothing. I’m fine.” But everything sounded wrong in her voice.
There was no way I was going to drop this. Not when our relationship was still so fragile. I wasn’t going to let anything else break. “Baby, talk to me. Let me in.”
“God
