Chapter Seventeen
“Where you lead, I will follow. Where you stand, I will remain. Where you rest, I will stay. When you cry, I will weep. When you smile, I will capture it and hold the memory of it in my mind. You are mine, and I am yours. It’s as simple as that.”
~Nick
Kara closed her eyes as Nick traced the contours of her face with the pad of his finger. She’d lost track of time since he’d brought her home. She’d woken up laying in his bed, and he’d only left her side long enough to retrieve food that had been delivered to them on a regular schedule, tend to his bathroom needs, and give her the privacy to tend to her own. The rest of the time, they simply laid in his bed, both on their sides, facing one another. Sometimes they slept. Sometimes he slept, and she watched him. But her f
