Chapter 195

She needed comfort.

Fuck.

“Shh.” He rolled over to face her, then wrapped his arm around her small middle and dragged her body against his. “I’ll keep you safe, little one. Rest.”

Slowly, she stilled. Her brow smoothed. Her body relaxed.

His didn’t. He’d splayed his palm across her abdomen. Under his thumb, he could feel the swell of her breast. Her lush ass wriggled against his steely cock. Finally, she sighed, falling back into a deep sleep.

He lay awake for interminable hours, enduring the next-level torture before finally drifting off. His last thought? How the hell would he resist Laila for days—or weeks—before they reached Lafayette and could go their separate ways?

With morning light invading her lids, Laila opened her eyes and stifled a gasp. She didn’t know where she was or what time it was. All she knew was that, for the first time in months, she was lying with a man’s bare chest plastered to her back, his beefy arm constricting her midd