My body felt like I was inside a furnace, I was on fire. I tried turning in my bed, I was rooted in my current position, on my left side.
The weight of a dragon on my side, with its talons gripping and groping my breast, blowing its hot breathe on my neck.
Wait, something was squeezing my breast, I stared to panic, my eyes flew open taking in my surroundings. My body begins to relax, when I remember that I'm with Dwight.
I moved his hand away from my breast and I smile when I hear him groan while pulling my body closer to his.
He then blew on neck which caused me to let out a giggle.
"I have to get up, I have to get back to my apartment to get my car."
He then placed a kiss behind my ear, goosebumps running down my back.
"Beautiful."
I froze, my blood forming icicles throughout my body. That voice.
My subconscious steps in, trying to rationalize the situation.
It can't be him, how did he get here? In this bed? In this apartment?
No, it's not him, take a peek.
I try to turn, he eases away from my body. I turn to look in the eyes of Matthew.
"No." I start to cry, my eyes now showing the misery I'm feeling.
"Missed me?"
He moved in to kiss me, I tried to get off the bed, falling on my ass as I do.
"Please Matthew, NO!"
I woke up kicking and screaming, my arms wailing about, my legs in the air, fighting the blanket. Dwight ran into the room trying to get me to calm down.
"Lia, Lia, Lia." He takes my hands and pull me to him.
"Hey, it's me, it's just a dream, it's just a dream."
My anxiety and adrenaline levels fall rapidly from 1000000 to 0. I try to breathe but no oxygen going in nor out. He holds the sides of my face.
"Hey, try and take deep breaths."
I try and do what he says, forcing my nose to cooperate with his instructions.
"That's it, in.....out.....in.....out. You're doing great, just continue."
My body begins to relax. He runs his hand through my hair, soothing me. He moves my face with his hands so he can look at me.
"Hey, it's ok. It's just a dream, I'm here."
I grab onto his shirt closing the space between us.
"My nightmare became my reality, that's how real it felt."
"Dont worry, it never will. I'm here and I'll protect you."
"Thank you." Looking into his eyes for sincerity from his words spoken.
He hugged me, kissing my forehead as he pulls away.
"Go fresh up, its 7:20am."
"What?!!" I screeched out.
Throwing myself off the bed and dashing into the bathroom. I perform my morning routine, moving faster this morning. After getting dressed, I make the bed, then walked into the kitchen.
"Mmmm, that's smells good, what is it?"
"Oatmeal."
I make a disgusted face, "Really?"
"Yes," he laughed at my scrunched up face. He put the bowl in front of me. It had blueberries, strawberries, bananas on top, with cinnamon sprinkled all over.
"Eat."
"I don't like oatmeal."
"You've never had my oatmeal," he says while wiggling his eyebrows. "Try it please."
"Ok." I try the first spoonful. "Omg, this is so good. What did you put in it?"
"Now, that's a secret."
He sits and starts eating his oatmeal. We ate and talked before we headed out.
Walking to his car, he turned to me and said, "I'll pick you up from work."
"Are you sure?"
"Yea, I'll be at the lab today, I should be finished by 6:00pm."
"Alright."
We arrived at my workplace at 8:35am. He took my left hand in his and kissed my cheek.
"I'll see you later." He said.
"I cant wait." I said while getting out of the car. I blew him a kiss when I got to the door, he waved at me then drove off.
My day was going to be long, I had files piled high on my desk. I dropped in my chair, I powered up my computer and got to work.
5:47pm, my phone started to ring, I answered.
"Hey."
"Hey, I'm on my way, I'm approximately 7 minutes away."
"Great because I'm starving."
He laughed out, "I'm starving too. We can get pizza on our way home."
My subconscious beams with joy.
Our home.
"Stop it."
"What did you say, the connection is going bad?"
"Nothing, when you get here we can decide where we'll go."
"Sure, see you."
I hung up, shut down my computer and packed my files away. Stepping out of my office, I passed Lankton, our cleaner.
"Have a good night Lank. Kiss the girls for me."
"Good night miss Banks, will do."
I walked outside the building to see Dwight parked at the front. Getting into his car.
"Hi."
"Hey, let's go, I know you starving." We both laughed at his statement.
We stopped at Billy's, we got a large cheezy crust, ham and pineapple topping pizza, we left Billy's and se started our journey to his him home.
"I dont think I can stay with you tonight, I don't have any sleepwear nor any clothes for work tomorrow.
"That's fine, I'll give you one of my shirts and we can leave early so that you can get stuff from your apartment for work, or we can go there now and get them....totally up to you.
Last night flashed before my eyes.
"No, we can go tomorrow."
We arrived at his apartment. We got out his car and walked to the building. Entering his apartment, my phone started to ring, I took it out of my bag and looked at the screen, not recognizing the number I answered.
"Hello?"
"Did you fuck him?"
"Matthew? "
"DID YOU FUCK HIM AMELIA?"
"That's non of your business." I said then hung up.
"What's wrong?"
"Matthew, he wanted to know if we had sex last night."
"What?!"
"Yea, he's going crazy."
"He's not going crazy Lia, he is crazy."
"I know, I just really want him to leave me alone."
"He will, I'll make sure of it."
I completely lost my appetite after the phone call.
"I dont have any appetite anymore.
"You need to eat Lia."
I know, but I'm no longer hungry, I just want to shower and head to bed.
He sighed in defeat. "Ok. I'll get my shirt for you."
I took a shower and crawled into his bed. He came into the bedroom and walked up to me. Leaning down he kissed my forehead.
"Have a good night, I'll join you shortly."
I couldnt fall asleep, I tried so hard to focus on sleep, I even tried counting sheep. That didn't work. I started to drift off when I felt the bed dip, a hand around my waist, my body moving closer to warmth, a kiss on my cheek, and fingers going through my hair.
It was a whipser, so low you could hardly hear it.
"I think I'm falling for you Lia."
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Oooohhh, Dwight is falling in love.
This chapter is rushed. I'll come back and change a few things after I'm finished with the book. What do you guys think? Let me know.
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