Chapter 16

"I'm not in the mood to argue with you so early in the morning, Penny. Just do as I say for once, please," he muttered, unmistakable exasperation in his tone. I swallowed the nervous lump in the base of my throat before slowly crawling back into bed. I turned my back to him after sliding in, moving as close to the edge of the bed as I could without risking falling back off. My antics were rendered useless as Ken's large arm wrapped around my waist again and yanked me back against his hard body. His large form completely engulfed my laughably smaller one. His chest vibrated against my back as he hummed his approval of our position. My body comically tensed up as he took things one step further and nuzzled his head into the crook of my neck before quickly falling back asleep. I laid there uncomfortably for about twenty minutes. His warm breath fanning across my sensitive skin, causing a random bout of goosebumps to pop up all over my body. I contemplated my options for a lit