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hurts a little.” She pouted in sadness. She was feeling a little woozy, and the ache in her head was increasing.
     
    “I know,” he assured her as he slid his hand up and down her back.
     
    Julian laid Heaven on the bed as if she were a porcelain doll.
     
    “But you have to admit that Sybille is overreacting a bit.” Heaven shook her head.
     
    “Is she overreacting or are you underreacting?” he asked as he grabbed her nightgown from the dresser.
     
    Heaven rolled her eyes as she stood up. She had no more than taken a step when Julian barked at her.
     
    “What are you doing?”
     
    “I’m going to the bathroom.”
     
    “No.” He stalked towards her.
     
    “No?” she repeated before he scooped her up and carried her to the bathroom.
     
    “I don’t want you doing any unnecessary tasks,” he informed her.
     
    “Like what?” she questioned him as he walked back towards her.
     
    “Anything that involves movement. I don’t even want you to leave the bed without my assistance. The doctor told you to take it easy.”
     
    “Yeah, but he didn’t tell me to play dead.”
     
    “I don’t want you walking around.”
     
    “My legs aren’t broken…I can walk to the bathroom. Are you going to help me pee as well?” she remarked crudely, to which Julian promptly grinned.
     
    “I would love to,” he answered before setting her on her feet before the toilet.
     
    “I bet you would. I need to take a bath.”
     
    “I want you to wait until tomorrow, you could hurt yourself.”
     
    “I won’t, I’ll be careful. You can help me. I need to wash away this night…I need to be clean. I can still feel Gavin’s horrible touch.” She felt the hair on the back of her neck stand up. “I need to get it off.”
     
    He understood what she meant; he was having a similar reaction. He nodded and began to fill the bath. He would make sure she didn’t overexert herself or get her bandage wet.
     
    She walked over to him. He looked down at her, her disheveled appearance and the slight bruise now forming on her cheek. He knew there was a large bruise and a small cut on the back of her head. He grabbed her and held her tightly to his chest.
     
    “I don’t want to let you go,” he murmured as he held her close.
     
    Julian took a deep breath and inhaled her scent. It was the smell of her hair, the way her body pressed against his, the subtle lightening of her amber eyes when he made her cum, and the way she said his name—they all drove him insane. It was everything about her. He never believed he would love anyone more than himself; it had never seemed logical. Love had never made sense to him; it had always seemed too reckless to be healthy. Now it made all the sense in the world.
     
    “I don’t want you to let me go either,” she said, her voice muffled by his shirt. Her head was resting against his chest hard enough to leave an indentation.
     
    She had been trying to be strong and not let her emotions overpower her. But at that very moment as Julian held her, she felt the dam break. She was safe in his protective arms, and the reality of it all hit her like a brick.
     
    The crazy night, the blackmail, the pictures, the videos, the sharp pain in her head, the abduction, and the memory of what Gavin had done—it all came to a head. She had almost lost Julian…she had almost lost it all. She came very close to never seeing him again. The thought alone could take her to her knees in anguish. Suddenly being strong for the sake of being strong didn’t seem so important to her.
     
    She started to cry. The tears flowed from her eyes like a water faucet, and her body shook with the force of her sobs.  She dug her fingers into Julian, holding onto him for dear life.
     
    Julian, shocked and saddened by her tears, held her closer to him. He was no more used to her crying than she was. Her legs were wobbling too hard for her to stand upright, so he held her even tighter.
     
    “Let it out, baby,