Chapter 136 She Understood Her Body Too Much

• Later in the night, it was dark in the room, save for the narrow beam of streetlight that crept in between the curtains. The city was sleeping somewhere past three in the morning. Quin lay on her side on Cole’s bed, with her back pressed against his chest and one of his arms across her waist, their legs entangled under the sheet. Sweat dried on their bodies and stuck to the fabric.
• From time to time his thumb brushed the soft patch of her skin under her ribs as if making sure she was there.
• Quin assumed he had fallen asleep. He was breathing softly and steadily behind her neck. Suddenly, his sleepy and rough voice came.