Chapter 291

  “Jake. I need to get out.” I wake with a start, my head spinning and nausea coming at me as soon as my sleep addled brain comes around. It’s close and I’m going to hurl badly.

  “We’re here baby, hold on, let me help you.” Jake jumps out and comes around the car pulling me out fast, just as my stomach throws up the bottle of water, I drank mid-journey, all over the gravel driveway of his mother’s house. Jake jumps back making sure his trainers don’t take a direct hit but keeps me in the crook of his arm.

  “I swear that time you were aiming.” His mouth comes to my forehead and holds me against him as the retching subsides. He sweeps back my hair instinctively.

  “Pay back for waking me up with a bottle of water an hour ago,” I grimace, my stomach aching from the effort and I’m rewarded with a smile. He picks me up in his arms like a child and walks me toward the house. He has no qualms about picking me up anyway; not that I am complaining.