Shifting?

Nicole was still frozen in fear as she looked at Roman.

"Stay down, Nicole." He repeated as he stood up to look at her.

"You could have died and now you can't even stay in a place to let yourself rest. You almost drowned in the freaking bathtub." Roman yelled, his eyes were red.

"I-i didn't…" Nicole started, a bit overwhelmed by Roman's raging emotions.

"I didn't know I was going to sleep off in the bathtub." She said, finally.

"You didn't know? Fuck! I was worried. I thought you would die. What would I do…without you?" Roman said the last two words in his mind.

"I'm sorry, I wasn't…" Nicole tried to apologize but Roman cut her off.

"You don't have to apologize." Roman said, cutting her off. His hands were clenched into fists.

On the other hand, Nicole's eyes turned teary and she squeezed out a few tears. Her heart was heavy but then she didn't know why.

She felt like she had forgotten something important.

On the other hand, her tears set off something in Roman and he immediately d