(Sloane)
I lay in the dark staring at the ceiling.
Kieran was asleep beside me. His breathing even. His arm across my waist the way it always was when we slept.
I should have been asleep too. I was tired enough. The day had been long and the argument in the car and everything after it had taken whatever was left out of me.
But my mind would not stop.
You're mine. I can do anything I want with you.
I kept coming back to that. The way he said it. Low and certain like it was just a fact he was stating. Not a threat exactly. But not soft either.
It had scared me in the moment. That was the honest answer. Not because I thought he would hurt me. But because of how much he meant it.
Kieran did not say things he did not mean.
I turned my head toward him in the dark. I could not see his fa
