Beast (Salvations Bane 2) by Marteeka Karlend

Author:Marteeka Karlend [Karlend, Marteeka]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIN 009394-03043
Published: 2020-06-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Fleur woke with a start. Sitting straight up in the bed, gasping for breath, she struggled to remember everything that had happened the previous evening. Seconds later, it all came back in a rush, and she wished she could forget.

Groaning, she put her head in her hands. “Fuuuuuuck.”

“Good morning, Sunshine.”

Gideon, or rather Beast, entered the room with a sack and a cup in his hand. He tossed her the sack and set the cup on the nightstand. “Brought you some dinner,” he said. The gruff note in his voice wasn’t unpleasant. Fleur got the impression this was probably the closest he’d ever gotten to bringing a woman breakfast -- or dinner -- in bed.

“Smells good.” It did. She hadn’t eaten the night before, too nervous about going to the stupid club, and she was famished.

“You feeling OK? Doc said you might be a little groggy or, at the very least, hung over.”

She opened the sack and pulled out a cheeseburger and fries, then took a pull from the straw in the cup. Coke. She took a bite before replying with her mouth full. “Too soon to tell. Right now, I’m just hungry.”

Beast grunted, turning to go. Then he stopped, looking back over his shoulder. “Your clothes are on the chair.” He pointed to where he’d been sitting the night before. Before she’d insisted he crawl in bed with her. Oh, my God! “If you feel up to it, dress and come downstairs to the common room. Thorn wants to talk with you.”

“Fine. Let me eat, then I’ll shower and be on down.”

Was it her imagination, or did his nostrils just flare? Like the thought of her in the shower turned him on. She glanced down below the waist, but he was turned away from her too much for her to see if there was a bulge at his crotch. Shit.

“If you feel dizzy, call out. I’ll be outside in the hall.”

“You’re gonna just stand outside the room? Waiting?”

Beast shrugged. “Ain’t stayin’ in here with you. You need me, you call, I’ll come running. Otherwise, I’ll be out here. Respecting your privacy.”

OK. That was a hard shut-down. Like she needed this kind of complication anyway. She sighed and stood carefully. The room didn’t spin, and she didn’t feel like she wanted to throw up. Taking another bite of her biscuit, Fleur crossed to the chair and checked out the duds. Not hers, but she thought they’d fit well enough. No panties. And a short skirt. Marvelous.

“Nice sense of humor,” she grumbled to herself.

After she finished her food, Fleur showered. She took her time, enjoying the hot water after the punishing night and the hours she’d slept. Her body was stiff and sore, and she just wanted to… what? She couldn’t go home. She didn’t have a home. She’d sold everything she had to move here. Granted, she hadn’t had much because she’d needed to use the money from the sale of her parents’ house to pay off the mortgage, and the sale from one of their cars to pay off her vehicle.

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