"Audrey, please don't leave."
Abigail paused in her steps, her heart thrumming loudly as those words escaped his lips. She was mostly scared at the prospect of him waking up and finding her in his room and his hold on her skin.
It felt all wrong, she is not Audrey.
She expected his hand to slip off her wrist but it wasn't happening. If she drags her hand away forcefully he would surely wake up and the thought of that had her mind whirling in anxiety.
It would suggest too much.
She drew back a little to his bedside, crouching on the floor to find a way to gently detach his hand's grip on her.
Careful and soft with her movement, she bit her lips wavering slightly as an awkward nightly silence hovered around them and gently peeled his fingers away.
Bit by bit, her heart hammered rapi
