"Because you keep the shadows away."
Those words stuck with me all night. I couldn't move, couldn't even protest before he fell asleep. And I didn't want to. Because the truth was that I'd never felt happier than when I was in his arms. He held on to me so tight, probably fearing I would disappear, but even if I wanted to, I knew that I never could.
The fact that he wasn't wearing a shirt and I could feel his big, strong shoulders move as he breathed was distracting me from the main issue: the fact that he was screaming in his dreams. It was truly one of the most heartbreaking things I had witnessed. The man I came to know as unbreakable and strong was reduced to a child, a very scared one begging for whatever was happening to him to stop.
