Seduced by My Childhood Sweetheart’s Brother
Chapter 21

21- Pillows and protection

The more I calm down, the more awkward this entire situation seems.

“Alright, I should make a few calls, let people know what’s happened and where I am. Why don’t you gochange?” he suggests. I glance down at myself and realise that my clothes are all dirty from where I saton the ground. I nod and make my way to my room. I quickly trade my skirt for my unicorn pyjamabottoms and my shoes for slippers. I grab a random white tank top and chuck it on instead of mypyjama top. Now that I’m inside, the long sleeves seem too warm. I can hear Bellamy on the phone inthe other room. I am pulling a brush through my hair when he knocks on the door.

“Come in.” Bellamy opens the door cautiously and looks around as he does. His eyes widen when hesees my huge collection of pillows, blankets and other comfort items. I cross my arms and glare at him.

“Don’t you dare laugh!” he shakes his head and hold his hands up in front of himself defensively.

“I would never! I was actually thinking how much I approve.” I raise an eyebrow and he

continues.

“Bedrooms should be comfortable. You seem to have

built yourself a blanket and pillow fort

of comfort.” I’m still a little suspicious, but I accept his explanation.

“I spoke to my sister. If you don’t object. I’ll stay here tonight and in the morning we can head to thecompound together. I believe you made plans to meet up with my sister?” I nod. She had offered toshow me around the compound a little more.

“She didn’t think it was weird that you were only dropping me home now?” I ask, curious. Bellamyshrugs.

“As far as she knows, the whole point of you being around is to replace a mate for me. It makes sense thatwe would spend some time together. Besides, I started with, Ryann and I have been attacked byVampires. I don’t think she had much time to process anything else. Hopefully it won’t occur to herlater.” He hesitates before he speaks again.

“If you’ll loan me a blanket and let me steal a couple of those pillows, I’ll make myself comfortable onthe floor. You’re exhausted, you should get some sleep.” Bellamy offers. I shake my head.

“I’m not ready to sleep. I don’t think I can just yet.” I collapse onto my bed and am buried by pillows. Inotice my laptop where I left it last.

“Want to watch something on Netflix for a while?” I suggest. Bellamy shrugs.

“Sure.” I pull my laptop out and set up Netflix. Bellamy just stands in the middle of the room awkwardly.I pat the bed beside me.

“I have no intention of moving from this spot, so if you want to be able to actually see the screen you’regoing to have to come here.” I inform him. Bellamy chuckles quietly and comes to sit beside me. Wepick a show that neither of us have seen before, but it becomes pretty clear about halfway through thefirst episode that the show is going to be pretty dumb. I glance away from the screen and notice thatBellamy is looking at me.

“What is it?” he jumps, surprised to have been caught staring.

“I was just looking at your mark.” He gestures to my arm.

“I really haven’t seen anything like it before.” His tone is curious.

“I haven’t seen anyone with a mark like mine either. I’m an unknown Magic, life would certainly beeasier if I could replace someone else who is the same as me.”

“Can I look at it properly?” Bellamy requests. I shrug and hold out my arm.

“Go for it.” Eagerly, Bellamy moves in closer to look.

“It’s quite pretty.” He observes. I nod.

“Yep, I appreciate that if nothing else. There was a lot of difficulty deciding what mark I should havesince I’m an unknown. I was taken to see an Oracle when I was young. All he ended up doing wasdrawing this pattern so this is what I ended up with.” It’s awkwardly quiet for a minute. I break thesilence.

“Okay, this show sucks. Let’s pick something different.” Without waiting for his response, I swap it to thefirst episode of one of my favourite shows.

“Love this show.” He comments as he settles in beside me to watch. I switch off the lights so we canpay proper attention. I’m so keyed up from adrenaline that it takes a while for me to relax. Bellamyseems comfortable, and with him here I’m not really worried about being attacked again. My room ismy safe place and eventually the familiar comforts soothe me.

Light peeking through a gap in my curtains rouses me and I groan. Still mostly asleep and totallyrelaxed, I turn away from the bright morning sun and snuggle in closer to the warmth of my blankets.I’m so comfortable that It takes a few moments for my sleep addled brain to realise that my pillow isbreathing. My eyes fly open and I shift around to see Bellamy lying half beside me half under me, still

asleep. I am lying partially on his chest with his arm flung over me. My laptop is sitting on the edge ofthe bed, still open, although I think it’s gone flat since it wasn’t plugged in and the screen is black. Wemust have both fallen asleep while watching Netflix. Am I going to be able to move without wakingBellamy? I consider our positions. It seems unlikely. Seeing no other choice, I carefully sit up, trying tomove his arm without waking him. I am just sliding it off me when suddenly his hold on me tightens, Ifreeze as he pulls me back closer to his chest. Bellamy grunts as he blinks the sleep from his eyes. Helooks sleepy and not very aware. His gaze shifts to me and he smiles.

“Hey.” He mumbles, I stare at him. I’ve never looked at his eyes so close before and even half asleep,they’re piercing.

“Hey?” my answer comes out as a question, my voice pitched a little higher than usual due to mynervousness. I was not prepared to face this much handsome, this early in the morning. Bellamy looksat me a moment longer before his eyes suddenly go wide. He releases me and I quickly sit up. He doesthe same.

“We fell asleep?” He asks, although he obviously already knows the answer to that question. It

answer him anyway.

“Apparently. What time is it?” Bellamy moves around as he pulls his phone out of his pocket.

“Almost seven.” He smiles at me, he seems more relaxed and well–rested than I have ever seen him,which is weird considering that we were attacked by Vampires just last night. I nod and climb out ofbed. I glance at the mirror and cringe as I realise my hair resembles a bird’s

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nest.

“I’m gonna have a quick shower.” I tell him as I retreat to the bathroom. I close the door before he has achance to say anything. I quickly turn on the water, strip and step into the warmth of the shower. Iexpected Bellamy to be uptight and paranoid after the incident with the Vampires last night. Thisrelaxed, chill Bellamy is a complete surprise. I am feeling awkward and uncomfortable, why isn’t he?It’s only fair. Maybe he’s just used to randomly sleeping in women’s beds. Maybe this isn’tuncomfortable for him. I don’t know anything about him, he could be the type to sleep around. AlthoughI admit that doesn’t seem TOO likely given his romantic disposition and his position as Alpha,especially if he’s trying to avoid leading anyone on. I am just about to put shampoo in my hair when Ihear a banging at the front door.