#Chapter 191: Come with me

YENA

I realized as I watched the change that washed over Nolan in the next few seconds, that I had never seen my husband truly sad before. Never. This was the first time.

Well, I reasoned, if he had felt sad when we’d been together sometime before, then he had kept it hidden away successfully. Right now, though, he was showing me everything. His energy suddenly felt tired, very tired, and he closed his eyes.

He took a few long, slow breaths in and out. I felt the air in the room stirring as he did so. It created a kind of cool breeze that slipped all around the edges of the floor and ceiling of the hotel room before circling back to us in the bed, chilling my skin and sending a shiver down my spine.

I climbed on top of Nolan. I guess if for no other reason than to get him to stop doing that. He was making it cold.

“Hey. It’s going to be okay,” I said. Immediately I second guessed my choice of words. They’d just come out… I didn’t know what exa