Brooklyn turned to the other side and pretended to sleep, not wanting to deal with him in his inebriated state. Her heart started beating with apprehension as she had no idea what sort of a mood he would be in. She had seen people get violent when they were drunk. Would Nikolas too get violent? Would he punish her? She clamped her mouth shut and closed her eyes and lay still like a log. The door opened wide and Nikolas staggered inside, muttering curses at everything.
Suddenly, the whole room was quiet but Brooklyn couldn’t open her eyes out of fear. However, she could feel Nikolas’s heavy breathing as he stood watching her as if in a daze. After a minute she felt the bed dip and Nikolas climbed in with her. Relieved she was about to relax and finally go off to sleep when Nikolas’s arm caught her by the waist and pulled her closer to him. A gasp escaped Brooklyn’s mouth as her
