"I haven't watched this since you left," Shell admitted, with a smirk on her face "It scares me to watch it by myself."
Jared laughed. The First 48 had kind of been their thing. That and any crime show they could find. It wasn't unheard of for them to marathon an entire season of SVU in a weekend. "You always were a bit of a scared Susan."
"This s**t is real-life," she protested, sitting up straighter on the couch.
"It is." He nodded. "That's what makes it so interesting."
"No." She shook her head. "That's what makes it so f*****g scary."
He opened his arms wider for her, and she did what she'd wanted to do all night - sink into them. It by no means meant that things were perfect, and they both knew it was a learning process. Tonight, she wanted to feel protected. She didn't want to h
