Sleeping With The Enemy (BoyxBoy)

Chapter Fifty Three

--Emmett's POV--
I let out a breath before climbing the stairs up to the second floor, I could hear the feminine giggling from within one of the guest rooms where Ren was giggling along with her making funny character voices from the children's book in his hands.

"Oh look it's Em Em! Isn't Ren a great storyteller?" Lacey grinned brightly clapping her hands happily.

"I'll say, He's great isn't he?" I leaned against the doorframe watching Ren blush and stammer trying to find words.

"Yeah! Thank you for letting me stay here" She bowed her head and I shrugged nonchalantly.

"It's no problem, we have way too many empty rooms in here. But I'm gonna go hit the hay for a couple of hours, if you need anything ask Ren or if you get really stuck Lucien will help you"

"Alright, have a nice nap Emmie. Feel better soon" Lacey waved as I backed out of the room and headed up the hall towards the master bedroom.

Tira was curled up on the bed when she was awoken by my entrance "Since when did you come here darlin, do you hate us that much?" I laughed stroking her ears softly as she purred happily

"Move over it's naptime" I pulled back the quilts and crawled underneath burrowing into the pillows finally having a moment to breathe in this whirlwind of mayhem grateful to be finally pulled into the darkness.

"Em, Come on love. You gotta eat"

"Ngh, do I have to? It's so comfy" I groaned blinking up at the dark figure looming over me.

"Daniel said we have to start feeding you a lot of blood to help keep our baby nourished. Meat that's almost alive and mixing animal blood in with most of drinks" Lucien smiled apologetically and I rolled my eyes.

"You know I hate the taste of it, can't I just have a normal diet" I sighed pulling myself up against the pillows.

"I wish I could do that for you, I really do but it puts you both at risk" He bit his lip gently brushing his fingers across my cheek.

"Yeah, I know. I'm sorry" I laid my head against his shoulder wrapping my hand around his.

"You'll be okay, but I want you in a no stress environment which doesn't help that you're meant to be coronated tomorrow. But once we're done here, we're going home where it's closer to Juvia and our families."

"What about work? Can I go back to work?" I asked peering up at him hopefully.

"Well the California Mercenary Division has been liquidated and the mercenaries have retired aside from Niklaus, You can take back the helm as long as..you take it easy and definitely no field work"

"Can I pick my mercenaries?" I resisted a giddy grin squeezing his hand tighter.

"Lux, Zephyr, Riley, Wendell and Finnian have all jumped at the chance to work under you again"

"God do you know how much I love you?" I grinned widely smashing our lips together crawling into his lap.

"I do, I am incredibly lucky" He cooed resting his forehead to mine running his hand up and down my back "Worried, but very lucky"
"We're fine, we're gonna be okay my love" I whispered nonsensical words of comfort against his lips.

"I do hope so" He swallowed noticeably casting his gaze down only so I could just catch the sheen of tears in his eyes.

"Oh Lucien, you're going to worry yourself sick at this rate. I beg you not to cry over me or I'm gonna start and it's gonna be a whole mess" I laughed past the lump lodged firmly in my throat gently cupping his face between my hands brushing a stray tear from his cheek.