“Better?” she asked.
“Mmm-hmm. Sorry if I scared you.”
“Don’t apologize, Nick. No apologies between us, remember? Anyhow, you’ve helped me through more than a few nightmares, so it’s my turn to do the same for you.”
“I wish I could have gotten to you sooner,” he whispered. “I wish I could have stopped Trey before he….”
He choked on the word. After the nightmare, the emotions and fears of that night were too close to the surface, leaving him raw and exposed.
“What’s done is done,” Beth replied. “Like you’ve shown me, all we can do is move on. And we are. Together. Let it go for tonight and get some sleep, okay?”
He pressed a kiss to the soft curve between her neck and shoulder. The fear wrought by the dream faded away until only a blissful contentment remained, and he thought again th
