Pucker Factor by MariaLisa deMora

Author:MariaLisa deMora
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781946738332
Publisher: MLK Publishing
Published: 2019-05-13T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Lindsay

She sat up in bed, startled by whatever had woken her, and listened closely. Chris slept quietly. His tiny breaths in and out reassured her that he was okay. She shook her head and had decided to lie back down when she heard a low groan through the walls of the house. Oscar.

Reacting to the anguished sound, she bolted from the bed and left the door open behind her, hand on Oscar’s bedroom door a moment later. She heard a muttered, “Fucking hell,” tortured and rough, and didn’t pause, throwing the door open wide. Light seeped in through his windows. Oscar was on his back, bare-chested, tangled in the covers, head thrown to the side. Eyes closed, his face was twisted, mouth open in a silent scream.

“Oscar?” He thrashed at the sound of her voice, his moves violent and uncoordinated. “Oscar, are you okay?”

“Fucking hell,” he muttered again, chin lifting as his back bowed. “Fuck them all to hell.”

Lindy hovered beside the bed for a moment, then caught his hand as it flailed near, his fingers nearly crushing hers as he took hold. “I’m here,” she told him, and his face turned to her, seeking, with eyes still closed. “You’re not alone.” Her worst fear, and the thing she held close from his words two weeks ago when he’d brought her home. Home, here, where he was caught in the grips of some nightmare she couldn’t understand. “You’re home, Oscar. Home.”

His grip tight, he pulled her towards him, unbalancing her so she fell to the mattress beside him. Oscar immediately turned and wrapped his arms around her, hauling her against his chest, throwing a leg over and hooking it behind her knee to tangle them together. His heart raced, beating so hard even in the uncertain lighting she could see how it thudded against his ribs. He’s done so much for me, for us. I’d do anything to make this better for him. She relaxed into his hold, giving him her weight, and she felt him take in a deep breath, then blow it out slowly.

“You’re okay, Oscar. I’m here.” All she could do was reassure him, and she did that repeatedly, continuing until his muscles relaxed and his heartbeat slowed, until his breathing came normally again. Still, he held tight to her, and when she tried to pull away, he made such a distressed sound as he clasped her close that she didn’t try again for a long time. She’d give anything to have this be hers, a place at his side like this, where she had a right to comfort him. I’ll take what I can get. “I’m here. You’re okay.”

A couple of hours later, Chris snuffled himself awake in the other room, and as his first cry hit the air, Oscar tensed in a different way. His question was rough, rumbling through him as he asked, “Lindy?”

“Shhh.” She pushed back, and he let her this time, reluctantly it seemed, but he let her go. “Go back to sleep, Oscar.

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