Chapter 25

The foursome all walked back into Melanie and Romans room together in a single file. Melanie threw herself onto her bed, while Sasha and Seth flopped on the bed closest to the door. Roman groaned, "Ughhh why are you guys on my bed?"

"Um no sir this is my bed"

"No, you forfeited it to go and stay with Seth"

"Only for the night I was very clear in the sleeping arrangements. Your little slumber party was a one night deal."

"Well until all of your crap is out of my room with Seth, this is my room and my bed so move your asses."

"OH MY GOD you two are worse than me and Seth." Melanie laughed as she rolled over to the other side of the bed.

"Leati don't argue with her just come and lay down over here."

Roman didn't think twice about it and quickly walked away from Sasha and Seth and laid down on the bed in the spot that Melanie just vacated for him.

"Keep your hands where I can see them Roman" Sasha yelled from her spot across the room making Melanie chuckle.

Roman rolled his eyes "I could say the same thing for you and Seth." He mumbled making Melanie chuckle again.

Melanie lay on her stomach with her head turned towards Roman, he lay on his back with his left hand under his head and his right arm on his stomach balled into a fist in an attempt to resist the urge to reach out and pull her against his side. He turned his head to face Melanie and closed his eyes as he took a deep breath. The way that her perfume traveled through his nose and took over his senses drove him insane.

He kept his eyes shut as her hand crept up his shoulder and smoothed out the collar of his shirt. He felt her fingers linger there and play with the pointed corner of his collar; he opened his eyes locking his grey ones on her green ones causing her to bite on the left corner of her lip "You look very handsome today."

"Thank you Lalelei, I felt the need to step my game up since I knew you were going to look like a total knock out."

Melanie wrinkled her nose around before smiling at him and holding up her index finger. "First of all your game needs no work, secondly you didn't know what I was wearing, hell I didn't know what I was wearing until we got back from breakfast. For all you knew I was going to wear a pair of jeans and a t-shirt."

"You could have worn a plastic trash bag and you would still look like a knockout. Hand to God you are the only woman I have ever met that can make sweatpants look sexy."

"Not true!"

"Really I specifically recall hearing women say last night that they would play for the other team if it meant they had a shot with you."

Melanie covered her face with her hand while her body shook with laughter. "They were drunk."

Roman shrugged "You know what they say a drunken mind speaks sober thoughts."

Melanie shuddered at the statement before snapping back and giving him a short nod and a tight smile. Roman noticed the immediate change in her demeanor and rolled over to face her.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing, I'm just tired." She said as she started to play with her bracelet. She prayed that he wouldn't push the issue she didn't want to go into detail, and she didn't want to argue about why she didn't want to talk about it. Roman watched her quietly for a moment.

"I know that's not the truth, you have a tell"

Melanie's eyes shot up and grew twice their size as she opened her mouth. Roman quickly and gently put his index fingers to her lips to quiet her.

"You look away and start to fidget every time you are trying to avoid a certain topic or when you don't want to answer a question. I want you to trust me, but I know it has to be done in your own time. So I'm not going to push you. You opened yourself up to me last night about a situation that is still very painful for you. I respect and understand the fact that you are not comfortable with telling me everything, but I want you to know that I'm not going anywhere. I will be here when you are ready to talk and I'm not going to judge you. You don't have to lie to me about anything. If you don't want to talk about something in your past all you have to do is tell me so, and I will back off, you have my word."

Melanie's eyes glossed over with tears, but not the same tears that she had shed over the past few years. The men in her life that she trusted had all either known her, her entire life, or had known her previous to her disaster of a relationship. So yes she loved them, she trusted them, she felt safe with them, but she pushed them away because she couldn't deal with having to tell them what he did to her and why with a few exceptions she just couldn't handle them touching her. But here is this man who has known her less than a week but he managed to make her feel safe, protected and accepted. This caused so many thoughts and feelings to swirl around in her head, she could not even begin to try and deal with them right now so she pushed it to the back of her mind and decided to focus on one thing at a time, and what she wanted to focus on right now was the way she felt in this very moment. She looked up into his clear gray eyes.

"Boy scouts honor?" she managed to squeak out through a smile that reached her tear filled eyes.

Roman chuckled as he wiped away the few tears that fell from her sparkling green eyes.

"Yes Boy scouts honor."

Melanie gave a soft laugh before burying her head next to Romans shoulder. She just laid there enjoying the warmth she felt emanating from his body. She wasn't snuggled up to him but she was close enough to hear him breathing, close enough that when he turned his head, she could feel his warm breath on her face and it tickled her nose. She felt the bed shift under her, followed by 2 thuds as something hit the carpet by the bed. She assumed it was Roman's shoes. She heard him walk around the bed before feeling 2 strong hands gently and slowly remove her shoes one by one. As soon as her feet were free of their confines she pulled her knees up to a 90 degree angle and crossed her ankles. She felt the bed dip as he laid his body back down next to her. She inched herself closer to Roman so that her knees were just touching his side. He rested his left hand on her outer thigh just above the crook of her knee, as she wrapped her hands around his arm that was across her legs and rested her head on his shoulder.

This is how they fell asleep, all four of them slept soundly until Melanie heard her phone vibrate. She sighed as she let go of Romans arm and propped herself up on her arm to look for it. She saw the light going off on the nightstand and inched closer to Roman so that her hand was slightly underneath him as she leaned herself up and over him to grab it. As she was lowering herself back over him she paused in mid movement before slowly laying her head down on his chest and looking at her message. It was from her Godfather telling her he would be to her room in 30 minutes. She felt Roman's chest rise higher than normal before letting out a long breath and feeling his arm reach up and wrap around her shoulder as he held her close to him. She lifted her head up to look at him and smiled seeing that he was still fast asleep. She laid back down knowing she had a few more minutes to relax before she needed to get ready to go.

Not long after there was a knock at the door that caused the remaining bodies in the room to start stirring. Roman went to sit up, but was pushed back down by Melanie who laid her arm across his waist as soon as he reclined back onto the bed.

"No Le, non vanno lasciate Seth farlo" (No Le, don't go let Seth get it.)

He nodded his head as he smiled and reached down and wrapped his arm around Melanie's waist and pulled her up the length of his body so that her head was directly under his chin. "Your wish is my command, especially if it makes Seth do something he doesn't want to do." He muttered as he nuzzled his face into her hair.

Sasha groaned at the incessant knocking that brought her out of her slumber, she reached over and nudged Seth

"Babe go open the door."

"This isn't even my room why do I have to go" he whined "Why can't Roman go get the door."

"Because Roman is busy so stop minding his business." Melanie answered as she closed her eyes. She felt Roman's body vibrate with his laughter and she smiled as she reached her arm across his chest and placed it on his right shoulder.

Seth pushed himself up out of the bed and stomped over to the door and quickly swung it open. "I swear to God this better be important."

"Well hello to you to sunshine" Melanie's godfather said as he and Seth stood staring at each other for a moment before smiling and giving each other a quick hug.

"Where is my favorite goddaughter?" he said as Seth stepped aside so he could step into the room. He stopped in his tracks as he saw Melanie and Roman curled up together on the bed. "Am I interrupting something?" he said as he pointed in-between them.

Melanie opened her eyes the minute she heard his voice at the door but didn't move. "First off I am your ONLY goddaughter, second of all you told me 30 minutes and third of all yes, you interrupted our nap." She said as she twirled her finger in the air before peeling herself from Roman and walking over to her godfather. He picked her up in his arms as soon as she was within arm's reach making her laugh as he hoisted her into the air. Once her feet were firmly planted back on the ground she grabbed her godfathers hand in hers and pulled him further into the room towards the bed where Roman was now sitting with an amused look on his face.

"Leati, this is my godfather, I believe there is a large possibility that you two have met before?" she said with a sly smile.

Roman laughed and ran his hand across his chin before standing to his feet and giving him a hug.

"Yeah we've met, nice to see you again Shawn."

A/N

Happy Saturday my Lovelies!

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