Lie Down with Dogs by Hailey Edwards

Author:Hailey Edwards
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: urban fantasy romance, urban fantasy, paranormal romance, paranormal, dark fantasy romance
Publisher: CrushStar Multimedia LLC
Published: 2015-04-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Morning sucked. Rook hadn’t visited my dreams, probably because two hours wasn’t enough time to get me into an REM state of mind. I shifted onto my side with a grunt and found Mai sitting upright in bed. Pillows were crammed behind her back. An assortment of junk food and soda cans were spread across her covers, and a bucket of ice sat on her side of the nightstand. Someone had hit the vending machines. Hard.

The Spanish soap opera she had been watching on mute flickered as the screen went black.

“There she is. I was starting to wonder if you were ever going to wake up.” Mai tossed a packet at me. “Are you sure you’re not the one they drugged?”

“What—? No.” I scanned the wrapper through blurry eyes. “I’m not eating chocolate for breakfast.”

“You’re saying no to chocolate?” She wiped a smudge off her lips. “Sounds like drugs talking to me.”

I pushed off the mattress and locked my elbows to force myself to stay vertical. “Where did you get all that?”

A snap of her fingers and an orgasmic scent wafted past my nose on a gust of AC-churned air. “Can you deliver it for me, pretty please?” She fluttered her eyelashes at dead space. “I would do it, but you heard the doctor’s orders.”

I stopped salivating and wiped my mouth. “What doctor?”

“Dr. Shaw.” She flicked crumbs off her covers. “Ever met him? Tall? Dark? Broody? Apparently he gets off on force feeding girls laxatives.”

Lefty appeared at the edge of my bed, holding a greasy paper bag away from his body.

“For me?” I snatched it out of his hand and stuck my head in the opening. That first long inhale made me believe in God. Wait. Was I really equating proof of a higher power with the existence of bacon?

Yes. Yes, I was.

“You better stand back before she bites you on accident,” Mai warned.

Crunching down on a slightly burnt strip rescued from the bottom of the bag, I shut my eyes in bliss. “Was this your doing?”

“No.” He turned his back on us and resumed his post. “It was Shaw.”

At the sound of his name, my appetite vanished, and I crumpled the bag.

“Hey.” Mai made grabby hands. “That is a perfectly good extra bacon, egg and cheese biscuit. I was just kidding about the laxatives. Mostly.”

“There.” I snagged a napkin and then tossed her the bag. “Enjoy.”

“What gives?” She froze with her hand in the sack. “He didn’t take a bite out of it, did he?”

“No.” I wiped my fingers. “He wouldn’t do that.”

He knew how seriously I took crimes against pork products.

“Then what is it?” She examined her prize. “I thought you’d be happy we were playing nice.”

The two of them would have to forge a truce the second he and I broke ours. “I am happy.”

“That’s not your happy face, Tee.” She took a tentative nibble. “That’s your marshal face.”

I rubbed the grit from my eyes. “I have a marshal face?”

“You have several, actually.” Food garbled her words.

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