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30. Pushing Limits
Gemma
She lay in her bed, staring at the ceiling. It was late and she still couldn’t sleep; she’d agreed to Daisy’s repeated insistence the previous night to slip into Dale’s bed to get some sleep. She couldn’t think of him in the formal sense of ‘the commander’ now that she’s snuck into his bed like a scared toddler after a nightmare. But she also couldn’t do it every night.
It felt like she was pushing limits and boundaries and she wasn’t sure it was fair to him, despite him pulling her close in his sleep. But again, she couldn’t sleep. She’d rolled around, got herself tangled up in the covers and Daisy was whining in her head to go to Dale.
Finally, with a sigh, she sat up. “This is the last time I’m sneaking into his room. We can’t keep doing this, Daisy.”
“He would love us going to bed with him&h
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