In the Contagion of Blood by Melle Amade

Author:Melle Amade [Amade, Melle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-30T16:00:00+00:00

#six

A knocking on the door woke me up. I opened my eyes, looking around my small wood-paneled bedroom in Magdalene House, the tiny bed-and-breakfast where we were staying.

“Theía Ophelia! Time to wake up!” Helene hammered on the door again. “Why did you lock the door?”

It all flooded back in a red hot second. Turin. I twisted my head to the side.

Fuck.

I jumped up and pulled the curtains closed. Turin was in my bed, his arm flung over his head, eyes closed.

My head throbbed in pain and my whole body felt…shit…really, really good.

I bit my lower lip as Helene hammer on the door again. “Come on, I want to get to the lab,” she said. “It’s already seven o’clock.”

How the hell was I going to explain this? She knew I didn’t know Turin. She knew I just met him yesterday, the same time she did. How would I explain why he was in my bed? My whole body rushed with heat and a shiver moved through me as I remembered the Abbey, pressed into the dirt with Turin deep inside me and the shadows above me. It had been…amazing.

“My alarm didn’t go off,” I yelled through the door. “Go down to breakfast. I’ll meet you there.”

“But –”

“Go!”

I could still pull rank with Helene and I breathed a sigh of relief as I heard her mumble “okay” as she stepped away from the door. Her footsteps wandered down the bed-and-breakfast’s hallway. The building itself was incredibly small and I could still hear as she made it to the bottom of the stairs.

By the Seelie queen what had they heard last night?

It was all a blur, as if I had been drugged. But I saw his face. Turin had felt the same thing. And then what? We made it back here? I couldn’t stop. I needed him again and again and again.

I frowned, staring at his broad chest, free of the fine weathered quilt that covered the bed.

The way I was feeling wasn’t right. The plains of his face were smooth and peaceful in the damp morning light. I wanted to kiss him. And that feeling in the pit of my stomach moving through my entire body, it wasn’t just wanting him. There was some kind of crazy voodoo going on because the more I stared at him the softer my heart felt.

“Get a grip,” I mumbled to myself, stopping my hand from reaching for him.

I’d never had a one night stand before. The last thing I needed was to have one and then think I was in love with the guy. What an idiot I was.

“Get up,” I said loudly, banging the bathroom door to startle him awake.

He sat up instantly, as if he’d actually just been lying there with his eyes closed listening to Helene and I. His gaze took in everything from the top of my head down to my toes, and I suddenly realized I was standing there completely naked. I clenched my teeth but wasn’t about to cover myself up.

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