Calm (midway Hunter series snippet)

His softly stroking hand and his velvet voice conspired to turn into the warm darkness of a soft blanket pulled around me, and that was that.

Mini-snippet of a later book (probably gonna end up being around book 4 or 5)

“Look at me.” His voice had turned the warmth of a hearth fire, if still hushed like snow. “You did good.” His hand moved to my crown and slowly travelled down the back of my head to cradle it, pulling me closer. “That voice in your head right now? You know what that is. It’s not you.”

He didn’t tell me that everything would be alright or that the world would look much different tomorrow. Didn’t even try to calm me by saying they’d come around. We were both past such comforting lies and promises that had no guarantees.

But his softly stroking hand and his velvet voice conspired to turn into the warm darkness of a soft blanket pulled around me and over my head as his second hand found my back, and that was that. Even if my fingers still trembled.

My slow exhale was an unheard sigh, muffled by his chest as my shoulders finally sank down.