Chapter 15: This Can’t Be Happening Again!

“Calm down, I can explain,” Carter was saying with his hands up, but Celia couldn’t keep her panic down.

She couldn’t believe it. Carter was here in her bed.

Where were the children?

She wasn’t sure whether she should get up as fast as possible or stay where she was.

She looked at Carter and then at herself, expecting to be undressed. She was surprised and relieved to discover that she was as fully clothed in what she’d been wearing the previous night.

“How did I get here?” she asked in confusion. “I don’t remember going to bed last night.”

She tried hard to recall the events of the previous evening.

“You fell asleep on the couch, so I carried you to bed,” Carter replied with a calm expression on his face.

Celia decided to stay put and try to figure out what had happened between them. Her brain still felt a little bit foggy.

“You should not have had all that alcohol,” she told herself inwardly.