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A wave of black hair hung over her forehead, and her pretty blue eyes smiled “It’s just you and me now Katy”

I woke with a gasp, my heart pounded loudly between my ears, my chest so tight, the room so dark I could barely see a thing, I instructed my lungs to work.

White lights dotted around the edges of my vision.

Oh God.

I think I’m going to be sick.

I gasped as I drew in one shaky breath after the next my eyes clenched shut, fingers fisted around the pillow under my head. It took me a moment to realize where I was. For my mind to register it was warm sheets around my bare body and not cool rainy air. I could still hear squealing tires and a loud platter of heavy rain if I closed my eyes so I kept them wide open.

Behind me, the bed moved, and something heavy, a familiar warmth draped over me—warm skin against my chilled back.

“Katy?”

I blinked, my throat too tight for words.

Ian.

He’s here.

Oh, thank God he’s here.

The white lights that began dotting my vision dimmed.

His finger smoo