CHAPTER 77

She slept through the night for the first time since we brought her home.

It didn't seem to matter that she'd slept for the majority of the day after Jade had brought her into his bedroom. We didn't hear her scream or moan in pain, and the nightmares that had disturbed her every night had stopped. I don't think they're gone for good, but at least she had a nice night's sleep.

She never mentioned her nightmares, which were presumably a big reason she slept so little in her room. According to Jade's choice yesterday morning, he'd chosen to do something about it.

I run my fingers through my hair. "But you didn't need to do it like that."

He looks up from his laptop and gives me a long stare. "How should I have done it, Dan?" "Oh, you poor sweet thing?" I stroked her hair back from her face.

"Jade."

He shakes his head and returns his gaze to his laptop monitor. "She was about to snap." It's better that someone shoved her and we were there to catch her than that it happened while she was a