Cover Him with Darkness by Janine Ashbless

Author:Janine Ashbless [Ashbless, Janine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781940550060
Publisher: Cleis Press

Jelena took us upstairs after sunset.

“Don’t go that way down the hall—the floor is not safe,” she said on the first landing, and I translated for Egan. She took us left instead, to a heavy door. “This is your room.”

It was bare and smelled of dust and had one large bed. “Um, didn’t you warn her we aren’t married?” I said in English, trying not to smile and failing terribly.

“Ahhh.” He looked a lot more concerned than me. “It didn’t cross my mind.”

“Don’t worry. It’s a big bed. We’ll manage, I suppose.”

“I suppose…”

I thanked Jelena, smiling through my blushes. She showed us two small flashlight lanterns on a table by the bed and told me, “Soon we will lock the front door and turn the generator off. If you need to piss in the night, there’s a pot under the bed.”

Oh, how startled Egan looked when I passed that one on…

Jelena turned to leave us. There was a small wooden crucifix by the door and I saw her pause and cross herself with an odd shrug of her shoulder before she disappeared down the hall toward the stairs.

“Well, this is a bit awkward,” said Egan.

A part of me was disappointed that he looked more embarrassed than as if he were looking forward to taking advantage of the situation. Those dreams I’d been having had a lot to answer for, I admonished myself. “Well, obviously, we just keep our clothes on.”

“Obviously.” He folded his arms and nodded.

“Do you snore?”

“I…don’t think so.”

“That’s okay then. We’re good.” I smiled brightly and kicked off my boots.

“Are we, um, safe? From your man there?” Was I imagining the tease in his voice? It made me want to rise to the challenge.

“I don’t know,” I said, affecting an air of innocent inquiry. “What do you think?”

Egan cleared his throat. “I think we should get as much sleep as possible. We’ve got a long way to go tomorrow, with luck.”

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