Mated: A Fated Mate Paranormal Romance (Cursed Kin Book 1) by Gina Cole

Author:Gina Cole [Cole, Gina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-10-06T16:00:00+00:00

13

HOLLY

Did you give me parvo, rabies, or something else?

Holly texted Niall angrily from the bathroom floor of her apartment. It had been a beautiful evening with Niall and they’d made love one more time, this time enjoying each other in a leisurely pace before parting. There was no expectation and no commitments made, it was simply scratching a wonderful, deep ‘itch’ that both of them needed… until she got home.

Expecting to start itching or sneezing, Holly hurriedly took a shower once she got home and immediately put her clothing in the washer. As she stood under the hot water, her stomach gave a painful lurch. Thinking it was indigestion, she rinsed her hair with the intention of getting out of the shower and taking some Pepto-Bismol. Instead, as she bent over to turn off the water she felt nausea. Wringing her hair out and reaching for the towel bar, the entire room went sideways causing her to flop down painfully onto the bath mat on the tile floor.

“What is wrong with me?” she asked aloud and groaned as her phone dinged in response to receiving a text message. She would look in a few minutes once her dinner finally came up and the nausea subsided. Moments later, Holly realized that she would never, ever eat ranch dressing ever again.

Reaching up from the floor, she grasped her plastic cup that held her toothbrush and awkwardly filled it with water. Rinsing her mouth, she spit weakly into the toilet and flushed it. Shivering, she reached up for the towel and pulled it down from the bar, covering herself like it was a tiny blanket.

Her phone dinged again and then moments later rang.

Holly stared at it wistfully as she lay there weakly on the floor. She felt like she was burning up with fever. Shutting her eyes sleepily, she nodded off. Sometime later, she heard her phone ringing again and reached for it. Her arm stretched in front of her and seemed almost as if it was someone else’s. Her fingertip caught the phone edge and nearly flipped it into the toilet, but she managed to catch it awkwardly.

How long had she been asleep?

She saw that she had eighteen text messages and twelve missed calls from Niall and several others from another number. Pushing redial, she called Niall first.

“Holly!” his panicked voice yelped in the phone as she held it away from her aching head. “I’ve been trying to reach you for over an hour – Are you okay? Where are you?”

“I’m at home,” she breathed and looked around her bathroom. “I’m at home, sick.”

“Are you sick or is it your allergies?”

“My allergies make me itch, this is different.”

“Different how, princess? Where are you?”

“I’m at home. Don’t you listen?”

“What’s your address? I don’t know where you live, remember?” he growled in frustration causing her to smile weakly. “How is this different?”

“I’m really dizzy and nauseated. My stomach burns right now. I wasn’t joking about the rabies or parvo, mutt-for-brains. Did you make me sick?”

“Holly, I don’t know.

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