Crazy for Your Love by Lexi Ryan

Author:Lexi Ryan [Ryan, Lexi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Lexi Ryan
Published: 2019-03-18T16:00:00+00:00

When I wake up a few hours later, Carter’s awake and staring at me. I see the confusion on his face.

Light pours in through the open curtains, casting the room in the soft yellow glow of morning sun. After curling up on his chest, I slept like a rock. I’m normally a terrible sleeper.

“Teagan?” he asks. The sound of his voice this early in the morning—all grumbly and low—makes me want to snuggle into him. Instead, I scramble off the couch and stand, picking up the remaining blankets on the floor to avoid his gaze. He looks around blearily. “Was there something wrong with the bed?”

My cheeks heat. Did I really think he’d want me to sleep on top of him? “You were having a nightmare.”

“Shit.” He tugs on his messy hair. “How bad was it?”

I shrug. “Bad enough I knew you were upset. You have them a lot, then?”

“I guess. I’m sorry I woke you. Why didn’t you go back to bed?”

I feel like such an idiot, but I try to act like it doesn’t matter. “You seemed calmer when I touched you. You were saying we needed to get out, and I played along. I agreed and told you we would. That seemed to make you relax, but then . . .” My cheeks blaze hotter. I really should have gone back to bed. Maybe after seeing him like that, I needed the comfort of being close to him. “You didn’t seem to want to let me go, and I was afraid you’d have another if I left. I thought maybe you’d sleep better if I was there.”

“You played along?”

“Yeah.” Sighing, I smile at him. “I worked nights for a while. I never really adjusted to the schedule, so I was constantly overtired, and when I actually managed to make myself sleep during the day, I’d have these crazy dreams that I was at work and no one was helping me. I’d sleepwalk and talk to my roommate—eyes open, like I was totally awake. I’d demand that she help me with patients and apparently get really pissed if she told me I was dreaming or tried to get me to go back to bed. She eventually learned it was easier to play along. She’d smile, nod, agree to help me. Yes, she’d help me with the IV on the patient in 301C. Yes, she’d call the doctor to follow up on Mr. Frasier’s reaction to the new pain meds. It was the only way I would relax enough to go back to sleep.”

He arches a brow. “That’s crazy.”

I laugh. “She loved to regale our friends with stories of my sleepwalking when we were at parties.” I shrug. “It seemed to work for you too.”

“It’s clever.”

I hesitate a beat, not sure if I’m crossing a line by asking. “Is it the warehouse fire? Is that what the nightmares are about?”

His expression is cautious as he meets my eyes and nods.

“You tried to get Max to leave before the building collapsed, but he wouldn’t.

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