A Mating of Convenience by Elyce de Reefe

Author:Elyce de Reefe [Reefe, Elyce de]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-11T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

The next evening Nina brought her medical bag home from the trailer, telling Boaz she needed to go through it and take stock. The truth was she needed it to put her plan in motion. Tonight was the night. She tried hard not to think about it because every time she did, her heart would start to pound and then Boaz would look at her funny. She had the oddest suspicion he could hear it.

Nina had noticed that while she usually brought up a glass of water, Boaz had a glass of iced tea almost every night while he was working at his computer, and that tea was going to be her ticket out of here. And sure enough, tonight he carried a tall glass of dark amber liquid upstairs with him and set it next to his computer.

She waited until he was settled at his desk before going into the bathroom to run a bath. It was something she’d only done once before, and she realized with some regret that she should have spent more time with those Jacuzzi jets while she had the chance. Foaming jasmine-scented bath salts has appeared in the bathroom about four days after she’d arrived, and they’d proved too much to resist. But it had felt just a little too complacent luxuriating in the foam, so she’d only done it the once. That might have been a mistake, Nina.

She poured a good amount of the salts into the tub and turned the hot water to full blast. Leaning over the tub, she waited a few minutes for the water to release the scent into the air. Hopefully it would rise up to coat her skin and mask any tell-tale scents she might be giving off. Call her crazy, but she got the feeling these ‘people’ could smell what she was thinking. Or at least what she was feeling.

When she was satisfied, she stuck her head out the door. “Boaz, would you mind getting me a cup of tea?”

His head came up and he turned to look at her.

“Tea?”

She tried to calm her heart rate, regulate her breathing. It was the first time she’d ever asked him for anything like this. She hoped it didn’t seem suspicious. Her nod of agreement felt quick and jerky.

“What kind?”

What kind? She had to swallow before she could speak.

“Any kind. Herbal if you have it, but plain black tea is fine too.”

He stood. “Milk? Sugar?”

“No thanks. Just plain is fine.”

He nodded and headed for the door.

Nina closed the bathroom door and leaned against it, trying to get air back in her lungs. She counted to twenty before opening the door and heading for her medical bag. Grabbing the packet of powder she’d pre-measured earlier, she quickly stirred it into his iced tea. She’d carefully calculated the exact amount it would take to have him sleeping like a baby straight through the night, but not enough to do him any harm. Not enough to stop his heart.

She bit down hard on the inside of her lip.

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