“You want me to stay in here? While you bathe?” he asked slowly, sure he was misunderstanding what she wanted. “If you don’t want to, can Luka or Axel? I don’t want to be alone,” she repeated. “The quiet is too loud sometimes, and I feel trapped in it,” she added in a whisper. Fuck if he was going to let Axel or Luka in here while she was naked. “I can stay,” he said. “I will just step out while you get in.”

