Warders, Volume One by Mary Calmes

Author:Mary Calmes [Calmes, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-63533-483-8
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2016-12-28T05:00:00+00:00

IV

MY EYES drifted open slowly, and I heard his deep exhale of breath.

“Christ,” he groaned, leaning back, sitting beside me on the strange bed, one arm on one side of me, bracing him up, the other on the edge of the mattress. “I forget how fragile warders really are. It’s a wonder any of you live.”

I stared up at him with only one question. “Why am I naked?”

“Because your clothes were covered in duatin blood,” he told me.

“Oh,” I said, nodding, “that’s what that flying thing was. I blanked it.”

“You want some water?”

I nodded, tiring fast. Everything hurt.

He passed me a tall bar glass, and the room-temperature water in it was perhaps the best thing I had ever tasted in my life. After a minute I noticed him squinting at me.

“What?”

“Nothing, I was just wondering what an unarmed warder was doing out patrolling alone?”

“I wasn’t patrolling,” I said, glancing around the room. “Where’s Dylan?”

“Christ, both of you have totally one-track minds.”

“Where?”

“Right there, idiot.”

Turning my head, I saw Dylan Shaw. He was passed out beside me, covers tucked around his shoulders, only his head sticking out from under the down comforter.

“Poor baby,” I sighed.

“Oh, poor baby, my ass,” he snapped at me. “He asked me so many fuckin’ questions. I have never been interrogated like that in my life.”

“What’d you tell him?”

He shrugged. “I don’t know a helluva lot about warders, but what I do know, I told him.”

“Shit.” I groaned, trying to sit up.

“Careful,” he said, hand on my chest. “You lost a helluva lot of blood.”

I looked into his eyes. “You bathed me?”

“I stood you up in the shower.” He tipped his head to my left. “He bathed you.”

I looked back at the young man on the pillow beside mine.

“He is small but he is scary,” Raphael chuckled, “and a fuckin’ possessive-ass bastard.”

I returned my eyes to his.

“But he’s not your hearth?”

“He’s nothing, actually.”

“Does he know that?” He smiled at me. “’Cause he didn’t let me do anything to you at all. If it involved touching your skin, he was doing it.”

“Can you just take him home for me?”

“No.” He yawned, indicating Dylan with a tip of his chin. “He’s your problem.”

“You made him my problem with your whole policy of full disclosure.”

He chuckled. “Fuck you, warder. This is your clusterfuck, not mine.”

“Why’d you put him in bed with me?”

“He got in bed with you, I had no choice. Like I told you before, unless I kill him, short of that, he’s doin’ whatever the fuck he wants. He’s not scared of me and he’s not scared of you. I just don’t get him at all.”

I groaned loudly; this was such a mess. “If I beg you can you take him home?”

“No. Hell, warder, if you don’t want him I’ll keep him.”

“He’s too young for you,” I almost yelled. “He’s too young for me. He’s too fuckin’ young for anyone but another college freshman. He needs to go home.”

“Guess who stopped bleeding?” He smiled, changing the subject.

“Whaddya want to take him home?”

His eyes narrowed as he looked down at me.

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