In the Wrong Year (Double-Check Your Destination Book 1) by Amabel Daniels

Author:Amabel Daniels [Daniels, Amabel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

When I woke up, disoriented was the understatement of the day. Of the year. Decade. Okay, the century, since that was the common denominator in my life now.

Heat spread along my side, on top of my upper back, and mostly under my cheek.

I blinked slowly, wondering if the dream I’d had of a cold-then-hot-then icy shower was a premonition of my day.

Waking fully, without moving from the furnace that seemed fitted to my body, I inhaled deeply. Smoky spice. A scent that was becoming all too familiar. And arousing.

Jake.

I lifted my head to find him still sleeping. Stubble had darkened more on his rough-hewn face, a sinister shadow on his jaw just inches from mine. Without shifting any more, I got comfortable to stare.

Again.

I’d done it last night, watching him sleep. Looked like I’d found a pastime to occupy me during this weird time jump. He and I were strangers in the better sense of the word, but there was no way I could ever forget him. The lines and scars on his face and chest, how muscles pulled tight even in his rest. He frowned in his sleep, those inviting lips—warm and impatient, I recalled—tugging down into the sexiest scrooge face ever.

I rubbed my thumb near the fresh cut on his lower lip, too sleepy to care if I was assuming too much permission to feel him so intimately. Too lazy to worry about falling so deep into his allure.

He groaned, sliding lower on the pillow at my touch, yet, he didn’t open his eyes. I kept my hand where it was, cradling his chin.

“How’s your foot?” he murmured in a drowsy rasp that I couldn’t help but react to. Heat, a simmering fire, rose low in my belly.

That his first words were a question after my wellbeing was sweet. The fact he didn’t bother opening his eyes as he woke and spoke charmed me more. He knew it was me draped over him in a more-than-cozy sprawl.

I mumbled a sound of so-so.

“Checked it earlier.” He sighed, which turned into a yawn, and then he opened his eyes. Burned me raw with his lazy whiskey stare. I couldn’t look away. He’d snagged me in that stare.

“You’ve been up?”

“Yeah. Had to take more painkillers in the middle of the night.”

And he’d reclaimed being so close to me? On purpose.

As though answering my unspoken thoughts, he spread his fingers along my back, digging into the tension in my muscle.

I sighed again, melting into what felt like such a natural fit against his side. Like we’d always slept together, could wake every morning like this.

For God’s sake. I just met him.

“Your foot should be fine, though. I changed the bandage, and it doesn’t look as inflamed.” He stretched his other arm up, wincing, and set it behind his head.

I must have really been out of it to not feel any of that. “How do you feel?”

He almost smiled. “Woke up next to you.” His thigh nudged between my legs, and I sucked in a breath at the friction.

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