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Watching her sleep beside him felt surreal; she never did because she was always in a hurry to get home, or they would both get caught up talking like lovers do after making love. Matthew found himself carried by the moment of not only looking at her but imagining sleeping with her every night and waking up with her beside him. It was bittersweet because she might never give him that. Moving his eyes to the clock beside him, he decided to give her ten more minutes of sleep before he woke her up to go home. He had never resented Jamie for having her more or that most of her decisions were made around him.
He was her brother, and she was the only family he had. Matthew envied him more than anything because he never had anyone protect him the
