Chapter 536

Then he felt something. Something soft was pressed into his body. An even softer one was wrapped around his neck, tightly.

Warm breaths caressed his chest, his bare chest. And a wave of black hair spread across the pillow and some portion rested on his arm.

Also resting on that arm was something soft. A soft flesh, a warm one.

His throat went dry at that moment. He should still be in the nightmare.

But his eyes were now opened and he could see his surroundings. His other hand moved and he found it holding on to something small, her waist.

Then she snuggled into him, burying deep in his embrace. And that was when he realized something. She was clothless and so was he. Except for the sheet, not a fabric of clothing was on their body.

Everything stilled, his heart stopped beating. Her face appeared in his view and he was thrown into confusion as well as speechlessness and more dread, a bigger dread.

'Hailey.'

Was he seeing things?

As if scorched and burned at once, he jerked up and