Amber's Heat by Lexxie Couper

Author:Lexxie Couper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Book Boutiques
Published: 2019-04-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

But don’t fucking shift now, idiot!

“Shit,” he muttered, clamping down his inner wolf.

No.

The pricking heat razed his flesh, his muscles, his very existence…

Not now.

…and then subsided. Faded away.

Palm pressed to his eyes, Kitt let out an exasperated groan. Talk about being on a roller coaster. Can’t shift, want to shift; can shift, not even close to being the right time to shift.

Maybe if he slipped from the room and found a park.

It’s daylight outside, idiot.

He shook his head, and swiped his hand down over his face, muffling another chuckle.

“What’s so funny?”

A wave of delight rushed through him at Amber’s husky mumble, and he rolled onto his side again, resting his jaw in his hand to smile at her. “Good…afternoon? I think. Evening?” He let out a wry snort. “I have no idea what time it is.”

Gazing up at him, she lifted a hand and brushed a strand of his hair away from his temple. “Does it matter?”

He dropped his eyes to her mouth. “Probably not.”

She didn’t move. Except to pull in a soft breath through parted lips.

Dragging in his own breath, he pushed himself into a sitting position. “I feel better,” he said, resting his arms on his bent knees as he fixed his focus on the TV screen.

The movie’s end-credits crawl had finished, the screen returning to the in-house movie catalogue. Would she watch it again with him, if he asked?

“Define better?” She sat up beside him, her gaze heavy on his profile.

He twisted just enough to look down at his bandaged side and pressed his palm to it. “No pain.”

“None?” Surprise filled her voice.

Shaking his head, he smiled at her. “None.”

“Hmm.” She gently touched the bandage.

He grinned. “Nothing. I can feel you touching it, but that’s it.”

“That’s fantastic.” Awe shone in her eyes as she smiled up at him. She didn’t ask about his ability to shift, but maybe she wasn’t aware he hadn’t been able to? What had the hunter told her back in the warehouse while he’d been unconscious?

Did she assume he couldn’t shift due to being shot, or hadn’t she thought about it? Her primary focus since saving him from the cage had been getting him medical attention—even if she had gone the veterinarian option—and then getting them both somewhere unknown.

Perhaps it hadn’t registered with her at all that his ability to change form had been restrained. After all, he didn’t shift into his dire wolf form every hour. Not even every day.

“It is,” he answered, chest tight. Did he tell her?

“Did you want me to take the bandage off?”

“Yes, please.” Did she need to know? Did it change anything now?

Her gaze held his for a moment, an unreadable light in their brown depths, and then she moved her attention to his side.

Drawing a deep breath, he rested his hand on the top of his head and stared at the TV again as she gently removed the tape and gauze.

“Wow,” she murmured once it was completely removed. “Oh wow!”

He looked down at his side, just as she brushed her fingertips over his skin.

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