Gavin helped Emily to a bedroom close to ours. She snored when he picked her up and she was still snoring as Roane and I lay in bed. It was a few hours later and the sound kept me awake. When I rolled over, I saw that Roane was too. His eyes were open and he stared back at me with an arm on my hip.
We hadn’t talked much when we got to the room. Both of us had showered and then crawled under the sheets. I had rolled to my side as he spooned me from behind. His arm hadn’t moved the whole time.
“Why can’t we sleep?” I asked now.
A ghost of a smile filtered over his face. “Because of the adrenaline.”
“I bet no one can sleep.”
“I wanted to be alone with you.”
My heart skipped a beat. No matter how many times he said it, I knew I’d always love hearing statements like that from him. “You do
