Chapter 16

Meryn

When I wake up, I’m not sure what to expect: aliens, talking animals, being thrown seven years into the future...or crocodiles ruling the world.

But, to my utter relief, everything is exactly as I left it...except Weston is naked and slipping into his clothes, but I have no idea how any boxers would hide his obscenely huge morning wood glory.

Don’t stare, Meryn. You know better than that. Don’t look at that beautiful cock—

“It’s rude to stare.”

My cheeks burn when Weston frowns at me, and I quickly avert my eyes. “I wasn’t staring.”

“Gawking then?”

Weston sounds irritated, and I’m about to give him a taste of his own medicine, but then I remember what that older Weston told me in my dream: the younger him is keeping his distance because he thinks that’s what I want. If you read between the lines, that probably means he is insecure as well. So maybe I should try to let him in?

“I had a strange dream,” I sit in bed, folding the bedsheet over my legs. “I was supposed to p