Chapter Fifty-four

“I am fine!” Maddie esclaimed for the umpteeneth time that day and it was only just one in the afternoon.

“I will believe that when you stop sleeping like a log of wood.” Drew shot back.

Her mouth rounded in an ‘O’ of surprise, then she burst into laughter. “That was not so very nice, Drew. You don’t go around telling a woman that she sleeps like a log of wood.”

“Not when the woman is my wife and is stubbornly claiming that she is fine even though clearly she isn’t.”

She had been sleeping alot recently. And she might or might not have just woken up from what was supposed to be a very short nap that elongated into a good sleep. But that was not the point. She was fine. “I am fine. Everyone has the right to feel overwhelmed once in a while.”

“What is overwhelming you, love.?”

“School. Classes. Reading. I am preparing for exams and I have been reading alot.”

“Baby, you’ve been falling asleep while reading. The number of times I’ve had to carry you from where you had zonked out to the b