Baby for My Arrogant Stepbrother Novel –Dianna ’s POVA pair of strong arms wrap around me from behind. I startle a bit before I realize that it’s just my step brother Josh. “Another nightmare?”
Josh’s voice is heavy with sleep. I nod weakly, feeling his breath against my neck. “Yeah.” I have had the same nightmare every night since my mother’s car crash years ago. I was used to woke up with scream and sweat, it’s painful but I didn’t tell anyone, including my father.
I just learned to calm myself down and tried my best to sleep again by recalling the happy times I had with my mom, and pretended nothing had happened the next morning, saying goodbye to my father with smiles and went to school to maintain the straight A average I’d worked so hard to achieve. But everything changed after my stepbrother Josh joined our family.
He heard my screaming from the first night, and insisted on coming to my room every time he heard it. He exhales sharply, clearly annoyed. “Still the same dream?” “Yes,” I whisper. I don’t like his tone.
He’s not comforting me, he’s just annoyed that my nightmare woke him up again, and he’s letting me know it. Josh groans “Dianna, I might have to move to another room. I haven’t had a decent night’s sleep since you moved in.” His words make me feel bad.
“Well, I’m sorry for being tormented by past trauma, but it’s not like I can control it.” Josh has never been the gentle, affectionate type. But no matter how much he complains, he always ends up here, in my room, the moment my nightmares kick in. I wonder why he bothered to do that. Is he trying to make me feel worse about the nightmare that is tearing me apart slowly?