I rolled away and Elio followed. His arms wrapped around my waist and pulled me to his chest. I turned around and he opened his arms and waited for me to nestle in before closing them around me as I buried my face in his chest, drifting away. I kicked and flipped the blankets away and he pulled them back, tucking them around us. He kissed my hair many times and buried his face in it. “Elio, sleep,” I groggily moaned out, sleep drawing me back into its cocoon and I was just fighting it. Elio kissed the crown of my head. “I will Principessa, sleep.” He softly assured me. I lowered my head back into the crook of his neck, finding a home, and drifted away to sleep. The monsters came in the early hours of morning but Elio was there to hold me tighter and whisper in my ear that it was all just a dream. From his voice, my nightmares turned to dreams filled with such joy. In my dream we stood in a deep dark hole yet every time I lay my eyes on him, a rainbow spread out of nowhere. All t
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