"Be good, I'll hold you to sleep, it'll get better soon..." He pressed her against his chest, his large hand smoothing her hair.
Tara Summer closed her eyes, trying hard to calm down and let herself enter a state of sleep, but even after a long while, she still couldn't fall asleep.
She opened her eyes, staring at the white shirt on the man's chest. Suddenly, the conversation she had with Crossley Gibson flashed through her mind. Crossley had told her how she and Ose Owen got together three years ago—in a story largely forgotten by Crossley, with memories recounted by Ose.
One of these stories was about how Crossley used to suffer from severe insomnia, and it was partly due to this that the two of them unintentionally came together.
Crossley had shared that Ose often joked about the past, saying she used him as a "sleeping pill," always throwing herself at him whenever she had insomnia. After the bodily thrill, she'd be exhausted, and sleep would come easily...
