(JOY)
I WOKE UP when I heard the sound of the apartment door being unlocked. My brain went on high alert and I jolted to a sitting position. Hosea stirred awake too. He sat and wrapped an arm around me when he noticed my reaction.
“Relax, Joy. It’s probably just –”
The door opened. Through the thin divider that separates the beds from the whole apartment, I saw a familiar figure of a woman. I sighed and all the tension left my body when I realized who it was.
“It’s just Bella,” I whispered.
“I was about to tell you that,” Hosea said in a soothing voice. His hand went up and down my back. “You haven’t gotten over that memory of the intruder, huh?”
I inhaled deeply and looked up at him. “I will be fine soon.” I smiled at him before I finally got off the bed to meet Bella.
I found
