Forever Wild by Allyson Charles

Author:Allyson Charles
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2019-03-10T17:40:14+00:00

Chapter 13

An ice pick stabbed into Lissa’s brain. Someone was moaning, and it took her a minute to realize it was herself. She gripped her skull between her hands and squeezed. “Oh God, kill me now.”

Four paws dug into her back and pushed.

Lissa squawked as she rolled off the bed in a tangle of padded cotton. “William,” she groaned. “You have to learn to share.” But the floor wasn’t so bad. She rested her head on the cool wood planks and willed her stomach to settle. Nope, this position wasn’t bad at all.

“Morning,” a voice much too loud and cheerful chirruped from a couple of feet away.

Lissa plugged her ears and peeled open a gummy eyelid. A blurry face surrounded by auburn hair shimmered in her vision before she shut it out. “Go ’way.” This was where she’d die. Dax would just have to deal with the body. Maybe bury her in that pretty clearing he’d taken her to.

A tantalizing scent reached her, and she twitched her nose. Rich and nutty. Slightly buttery. She pried both eyelids open. Dax sat cross-legged before her, waving a paper cup of coffee in front of her face.

“For me?”

He nodded.

Lissa considered. She might live. If she could think of some way to get the coffee into her mouth without raising her head.

“Come on,” Dax cajoled. “Sit up and take your lumps. I’ve got something that will help with the hangover.”

“Coffee’s good,” she agreed. “But floor might be better.”

He reached behind him and brought forth a grease-stained white paper bag. He shook it. “Coffee and doughnuts. The combination of grease and sugar and coffee is a sure fix. Voodoo Donuts saved my butt a couple of times in college.”

Her stomach churned. She wasn’t so sure about the doughnut part. But the coffee did smell delicious. Just the scent was clearing her head a little.

Pushing up to her hip, she waited for her stomach to stop protesting before sitting up fully and leaning back against the bed. She took the paper cup and greedily sucked down some of the elixir.

“Did William push you out of bed?” Dax asked.

The dog rolled over at the sound of his name, stretching out all four legs to take up as much space as doggily possible, and began snoring.

She nodded.

Dax rooted in the bag and came out with a powdered sugar-covered concoction. “He got me, too,” he said around a large bite.

“No personal boundaries, that one.” Lissa cocked her head and looked at the dog sprawled on top of the sheets. If he’d kicked Dax out, that meant all three of them had been curled up together on the bed.

A vague recollection of someone spooning her from behind drifted through her memory. She hoped it had been Dax.

He held the bag up to her, and she wrinkled her nose.

“I swear, something about doughnut grease works wonders.” He gave her that smile, the one that tripped up her heart and made her suck in her breath. “Trust me.”

She reached into the bag. “Uh … about last night …” Her face heated and she ducked her head, nibbling on the pastry.

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