Red between Us

capítulo 15

COMMENT AND VOTE.

Leo Alexander Grey

"Sir, there was a crash upstairs" my eyes are wide open, and I get up directly hurting my left knee on the way, 'shit' I mutter under my breath.

"What?"

He opens his mouth to talk, I cut him off raising my hand up.

I make my way out of the office leaving everything behind, trying to walk as fast as possible.

Old injuries never heal.

I take the stairs no matter how much it hurts.

I open the door, out of breath.

"Kate" my voice coming out louder than expected.

God thank you.

She is laying down but she doesn't look so well.

She looks at me and chuckles "you look hot you know" I think my ears are not functioning properly.

I enter the room more calmly now, that she is here.
I close the door behind me, only to see a wine bottle in her hand almost done.

Where did that come from?

Her smile is gorgeous, I don't think I have seen her smile before.

"Kate..."

"I think-" she raises her hand a little more than it is already "I am going to pass out"

She raises the bottle closer to her lips, oh shit.

"Okay Kate, enough, I need this" I take the bottle out of her hand setting it on the bedside table, seeing her usual notebook, this time open.

I look the other way, done it once, not doing it again.

"It was just a couple of shots, I am fineeee" my eyes widen, more like the entire bottle.

She is still murmuring things I can't really understand.

She is not like Katalina, Leo.

"Kate-" she takes hold of my arm with her left hand,
"I am going to pass out" she repeats...well no shit.

"You should sleep, love," I say showing no emotion at all.

She groans.

"Why are you always like that?" oh God, her pants are on the floor, how drunk is this woman?

"I can't sleep, I have too much energy"

"You have too much energy?-" she just she is going to pass out, she digs her nails into my arm, I fall directly on top of her, hard.

I left my weight off her directly, afraid of crashing her completely.

She doesn't let go.

She giggles, "do we always end up on top of each other?" she whispers close to my ear, sending an unusual feeling through my body.

I lift myself slowly, her hand still on my arm, I take her hand carefully and place it under the blanket.

"Don't leave" she mutters her eyes closing slowly, "I am going to be there when you sleep, and be there when you wake up"I say calmly.

I look back at her, she is blacked out.

Amazing.

I sight, dropping my eyes to the dirty black joggers on the ground.

I am not going to let anyone touch her that's for sure, I will do it myself.

I take the joggers with me making my way to my closet, placing them on one of the chairs placed in this giant room. I hesitate but end up grabbing one of my numerous sweats.

I make my way out making sure I close the light and door.

A rhythmic ticking familiar sound makes it's way to my ears, my closet is soundproof I couldn't hear anything back there.

I head to where I was minutes ago, taking the blanket off her, struggling to put the sweats on while looking at the amazing wall that I have since I don't remember and just remarked that it exists.

I left the blanket higher on her skin, making sure to tuck her in correctly, so she won't get cold.

The creaks become louder.

I close every single light in the room, the only lights coming from the thunderstorm light outdoors.

I sit on the couch looking at her beautiful face appearing once in a while, I hear her soft voice again, "I hate thunderstorms, come-" her eyes slightly open, I am not sure if she knows what she is saying exactly, "-please..." fuck, I will do whatever she wants.

I approach the bed at a slow pace, taking my shoes off.

God this feels so nice, having the same clothes on all the time and being able to finally take them off feels so nice, I open the first bottoms of my long sleeves shirt.

I get under the lids, I don't get time to get closer to her, she is already glued to my torso, "I love your smell" .

I smile, knowing this will only last a few hours for her to go back to hating me and being dry again, only if I could freeze this moment.

She smells like love.

I feel alive. For a short while I can forget about my demons.

Lock the world out of this room, just me and her.

I wish I could hate you, Kate. I am bad for her. she is my sickness, my problem. God, she is beautiful, she is perfect.

I can feel her heart beat on my torso, her hand caught in my shirt, grabbing on it for dear life, like I am going to disappear from her side.

"Good night, love" I say kissing her forehead before getting up from her warm side.

*****

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Or please contact a therapist.

TILL NEXT TIME.

10/07/2022

Love, Lynn