Until he was ready

(Cassidy) I woke up when he came in. I didn't say anything. He got into bed beside me and pulled me into him and held on without a word. I let him. Whatever tonight had been it was still sitting on him. I could feel it in the way he was holding me. I closed my eyes and stayed close and left the questions for tomorrow. Sleep didn't come back easily after that. I lay there in the dark with his arm around me and listened to his breathing and thought about the phone call that had pulled him out of bed and the way he'd looked at me when he said it was work. He wasn't lying. It was work. But there was something underneath it that he hadn't said and I'd learned a long time ago that pushing Dane before he was ready to talk was like pushing a wall. You just ended up with sore hands. He'