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A Day Off [Lukesse]

Jesse's POV.

I groaned as I fell face-down on the bed, all my muscles in pain and begging me to never move again. I didn't even have the strengh to take a shower and change, just wishing to close my eyes and to fall into a dreamless abyss. Although even now my head was buzzing with thousands upon thousands of thoughts about the next day, things I would have to do, all the cleaning that had to be done...

"Tired?"

I only mumbled something and crawled up to the headboard, allowing my head to sink into the pillow. Just to fall asleep, just to take some rest...

"You know, it would really get so much easier if you took a day off."

I frowned and that and apologised to my muscles when I raised my head to look at Lukas. He was already in bed, his hair wet and a book in his hands. His kind blue eyes looked at me with sparkling pity.

"I can't take a day off." I grumbled and looked away from him. "It's not like domestic life is an actual job."

He let out a breathless laughter and pulled me towards him, his arms around my waist. I closed my eyes in relief, happy to finally be alone with the man I loved the most. He rubbed his chin against the top of my head.

"You never took a day off from an actual job either." He murmured, and I felt his hot breath brush my long hair. It was comforting. And also very, very soothing. "You can't go on like this, Jess. Just let me help."

"Radar's already helping with the paperwork." I shook my head stubbornly. I couldn't allow Lukas to get busy with my well-being when he still had a book to finish. "The least I can do is take care of the family for now."

"Then who will take care of you?"

I didn't know what to answer to this. My brain was just too tired to work properly, so I didn't resist much when Lukas pulled me on his chest and let one of his hands play around with my hair.

"Come on, Jesse." His voice sounded like it was so far, far away from me... I could barely hear it. My breathing was a lot louder. "I can take a day off as well. I can surely take care of you and Dusk."

My eyes fluttered a little when I heard the name of my son, but my body just refused to function at this point. Everything went black as I felt my body falling down the black pit, towards nothing. The sleep finally caught me in its clutches.

Like always, it seemed like I was asleep for just a few moments before the agony started with the ringing alarm. Not awake just yet, I reached out to turn it off and maybe get a few more minutes for myself before Dusk called me... Much to my asleep surprise a warm and gentle hand caught my wrist and laid it down beside me.

"Sleep." Lukas' gentle voice spoke from right above my ear. And so I did.

Down that rabbit hole I went again...

I didn't know how much time passed since it happened. I didn't know how long I was asleep for, but it felt like my eyes hadn't opened in more than a century. I guess my body really needed it, huh?

There was no more alarm clock. No voices urging me to wake up or to feed the kid. No thoughts in my head that always brought anxiety and worry with them. No, all I did was sleep, sleep peacefully and so light that even a sound of a fly could wake me up.

But there were no sounds. Not a single one.

So at first when I woke up when I wanted to, I felt like everything was exactly as it had been before Lukas and I got married. That I was still lying in my bed in my tree house, with Axel snoring by the opposite wall and Olivia already grumbling about the lack of storage space for her redstone.