CHAPTER 40: To love a badboy

BELLA

The only telltale signs that Luka was in my bed were the tiny whiffs of his smell on my sheet, the dent from where his head lay on the pillow and some blood spots which were from his wounds. If all these signs were not there I would have convinced myself that it was a dream, because when I got up he was gone.

I slept well. I tried hard not to fall asleep because i didn't want to disturb him if I got a nightmare but when he started sleeping, and I couldn't see his face, all I had to do was lie in the darkness and listen to the rise and fall of his chest, it lulled me into a comfortable rhythm and peace with sleeping in the dark.

I stretched out my hands to the now empty spot filled with longing.

One of the few things I came to accept last night while waiting to fall asleep was that I like Luka. I like him a whole lot. I couldn't deny it anymore and all I have to do now is to make sure that I didn't fall in love with him.

On the bright side, all I had left was six months to h