Amy Lane's Greatest Hits: Amy's Alternative Universe by Amy Lane

Author:Amy Lane [Lane, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-63476-624-1
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2015-12-11T00:00:00+00:00

Almost Everything

DORJAN STARTLED awake, reaching for his knife. “Taern?”

“Sh,” Krissa murmured. “He’s asleep next to you, do you see?”

Dorjan turned and there he was, curled up under the blankets, his black mop of hair visible but nothing more. His form under the sheets was rising and falling, and Dorjan put his hand out on top of it so he could feel the boy’s breath.

The moment he felt it, he fell back against the pillows with a groan. “Bimuit—how long was I unconscious?”

“A couple of hours, no more. Areau insisted we take turns to watch over you for the first day. Said he’d never seen your wounds this bad. Is he right?”

Dorjan groaned, and tried to remember. “They’ve been worse,” he confessed, thinking of the increased security immediately after his first exploit with the assassin. “But I was younger, and Areau was apparently more self-involved.” He’d found a chirurgeon who had doctored his hurts for enough silver to leave the city.

“Well, I’m sorry, then, if you’ve been hurt worse than this,” Krissa said softly. “Here, drink some more juice. We’ve laced it with some painkiller, and it will help replace the blood volume you lost.” She shuddered. “I’ve helped women give birth, you know. I’ve doctored hurts after street fights. I’ve seen dead men in the gutter. I’ve never seen that much blood. I don’t know how you’re still awake, much less talking to me.”

Dorjan allowed a dry laugh. “Practice,” he said, knowing he was falling asleep in spite of the pain. “Is he really here? Really all right?”

She reached out for his hand and rested it on Taern’s softly moving chest on top of the covers again. That gentle rhythm calmed his heart, calmed his pain, and he slept.

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