Madeline:
In the middle of the night, I grabbed my blanket, got up from the bed, left the room, and then settled onto the same couch where Baxter was lying.
“What are you doing?” he asked sleepily.
“Stretch your arm out,” I demanded.
He stared at me for a moment and then obeyed, stretching his arm out.
I lay next to his body, my back against his front, and then rested my head on his bicep. I wrapped his arm around me and covered us with the blanket.
For a few seconds, he did not move, but that did not make me get up and leave him. I stayed there, waiting.
“You should not have—” he took a deep breath.
As he began to speak, I hushed him by biting his bicep.
“What the f— oww,” he grunted, complaining.
“Speak more and I’ll bite you more,” I warned him.
Then he started to slide his other hand under the blanket and hugged me tightly from behind.
His muscular arms folded around me, pulling me in and holding me completely while we stayed under the blanket.
“And don’t ever think that you’re my weakness, Baxter,” I whispered. “They had a gun pointed at Bodhi, and trust me, even when they were attacking you, I did not feel like you had become my weakness.”
I whispered that, and then I had to tell him one more important thing.
“Even with my wolf, I could not transition because they came in using power and our loved ones against us. So no, it was not your fault. In fact, you surprised me when you were able to fight them even without a wolf,” I murmured.
His arms tightened around my body even more.
His forearm brushed against my lips as it bent over my shoulder, crossed over my neck and reached toward my underarm. He had his other arm wrapped around my stomach, reaching beneath my right breast.
“The thing is, Baxter, we are each other’s strength, weakness, everything. Don’t limit us to just one thing,” I whispered, my hands running over his hands as I tightened the hug around my body.
“Then promise me you will never let them touch you again, no matter what,” he whispered the same words into my ear.
Even after telling him so much, he still did not understand that it was not because of his weakness, but because there were other people involved.
However, at that moment, I realized that he just needed comfort, so I said it to him.
“Fine, I will not do it. But promise me you will not take everything onto yourself, and that you will not hide anything from me,” I told him.
The minute I said that, he cupped my breast from underneath and pressed it, almost like his way of asking me to explain myself.


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