13 TBHM 13

I suddenly opened my eyes because I thought I heard something. I tried to listen to my surroundings, it's so silent now since it's midnight. I stand up from my bed and get out of my room, I stop at my door, waiting for something to happen.

I slowly walked my way to the room that Leigh occupied, I don't know why but I felt like something was going on.

' No! Help!' *crying * *tossing left and right*

I felt my eyes widen when I heard her voice calling for help. I walked faster and opened her door and scanned the room for danger. I turned on the lights and once more checked her room but found nothing. Only her in her bed, crying while tossing around like crazy, she's also covered in sweat. I walk up near her bed and try to shake her to wake up.

She wasn't waking up so I've got no choice but to grab both her shoulders and shake her harder but that only resulted in her crying harder.

I don't know what to do anymore than to hug her since her tossing got worse too. I hug her tightly in my arms, her crying starts to subdue and she clutch her hands to my skin. That's when I just realized, I don't have any shirts on and I'm only wearing my boxer since I just came from bed.

Her crying finally stopped, she hugged me while mumbling some incoherent words but nonetheless she continued on sleeping. I planned to get out of her hug but every time I tried, her hands would just go back to my waist and hug me tighter.

In the end, I fell asleep in her bed, beside this beautiful woman who has her grip on me, who has me in her palms without even me realizing it.

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Every night, I would be woken up by her screaming and crying and every time, I would go to her bed and hug her till she stopped crying and tossing and in the morning, I would wake up earlier than her so she wouldn't know that we actually slept in the same bed. That night, I did those same things I did the previous nights, like a routine, I fell asleep beside her. But the unexpected thing happens when you least expect it.

In the middle of the night, Leigh woke up with the sound of something vibrating. Her eyes opened in a slow manner, it's still dark around the room, she tried to move her body but she abruptly stopped her attempt when she felt something warm, like she was enveloping in that warmth.

Her eyes adjusted in the darkness and she saw a silhouette of someone beside her. While this person was sleeping with his back flat in the bed here she was sleeping in a side position and hugging him like her life depends on his body heat.

Confusion is written in her face, she doesn't know why this man was sleeping in this bed with her. She looked around and she was sure that this room and  bed is the same that she slept the previous nights.

Her mind is blank, she doesn't know what to react to at the same moment. Is he taking advantage of her? Or is he helping her? She thought that she's having bad dreams every night but she doesn't remember getting up from those dreams and so she thought, maybe she'd dream about having a bad dream. Is that really what happened? Is he here beside her because she's having a bad dream?

QAll her thoughts were gone the moment she heard the vibration of her phone.

She looked at it and her brows crunch up, the clock beside her bed says that it's 2 in the morning but why the hell does Old man Ted is calling her?

She swipes the screen of her phone, answering it.

' Hell-'

' Leigh! Thank God you answered!'

' Old man, do you know what time it is?'

' yes. But your mother asked me to call you on her behalf.'

With the word 'mother', she stood up and started walking back and forth around the room.

' What happened to mama? Goddammit Ted. Tell me!?'

' Look, your mother received news from the president's secretary who is working under the LFW company. The president got into an accident inside her own office this afternoon. She's currently confined in the City Hospital, your mother may be the acting chairwoman now but you know that stress like this is not good for her health. '

' I know. Thank you for telling me this. Even if my mother decided to take this issue upon her, I would disagree. Tell her not to think of this matter anymore, consider it done already. I'll look at it myself. '

' Okay, do you need a hand?'

' No, not yet. I'll give you a call if I need it. Thanks.'

She ended the call and went to the wardrobe that this man bought for her, she wore fitted black jeans and a black t-shirt, she paired it with black cap and black rubber shoes.

When she was done, she already dialled the number of the secretary that Ted mentioned a while ago. It keeps ringing, of course it will since given the time right now.

She walked out and found this man still sleeping peacefully. She smiled bitterly. If he just told her that she was disturbing his sleep every night then maybe they've talked it out already.

She walked up to his side and looked at his face, so peaceful, so beautiful, so manly and yet so cute in her eyes.

Asking him to marry her out of the blue, maybe it really shocked him but asking it wasn't so bad since she already likes him.

She smiled sweetly and kissed his lips, thinking that maybe they wouldn't meet in any circumstances anymore.

If the circumstances were different, maybe she could be with him?

Meeting him again… She wants it but only destiny will know.

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