Wild Child by Bella Jewel

Author:Bella Jewel [Jewel, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Wild Child, Bella Jewel, New Adult, Valiant, Romantic Comedy, 72 Hours
Publisher: Bella Jewel
Published: 2017-05-07T18:30:00+00:00

NINE

“Can’t I just—”

“No,” Slade says, getting a blanket and some warm clothes and handing them to me. “No, you can’t have a shower. If you warm up too quickly, you’ll make yourself seriously sick. You have to do it slowly. You were colder than you thought.”

I shiver, and I can see the faint tinge of blue in my hands. He’s right, I’m colder than I think. My head is aching, my body hurts, and right now the only thing I want to do is go and sit in my shower for hours, but I know he’s right, I know I can’t. So, I take the blanket, not wanting to move from the spot on the sofa that he put me, because my entire body aches.

“Get changed, I won’t look. I’m going to make some tea.”

He turns and walks into the kitchen. I watch him go, slowly shuffling out of my clothes with a wince, and putting on the warm track pants he gave me as well as the shirt. My clothes are slightly damp and they were making me colder than I realized. Pulling on the dry clothes makes me feel warmer straight away. Slade comes back from the kitchen with a cup of tea in his hand. He takes a seat beside me and hands it over.

“Thank you,” I say in a whispered voice as I take it and my body shudders with happiness as warmth radiates through my hands and up my arms.

“Drink it real slow,” he orders. “Don’t put your body into shock.”

I nod and take a sip of the tea, closing my eyes and loving how it feels sliding down my throat.

“What were you thinkin’ goin’ into the woods alone so close to dark?” Slade asks me in a scratchy, low tone.

I’m sure I look sheepish, because I feel sheepish. I should know better than to go into the woods alone, especially when I know absolutely nothing about what’s out there. It’s so clear now, but I was just so frustrated earlier and I just needed something to take my mind off everything. That nearly caused me more than I was willing to give.

“I know it was stupid,” I tell him, glancing at my cup instead of the piercing brown eyes that are fixated on my face. “I just needed to clear my head and before I knew it I had walked further than I thought, and then I twisted my ankle ...”

I trail off and glance down at my ankle. Slade put ice on it as soon as he put me down on the sofa, but he didn’t let me hold it on too long because my body was already so freezing. It’s swollen, and aching still, but the painkillers he gave me have set in and it isn’t throbbing like it was.

“You need to get that looked at in the morning,” he tells me.

“Do you think it’s broken?”

He shakes his head. “No, it’s not broken. You would be in agony if it were broken. I think you’ve just sprained it, but you want to check for ligament damage, maybe even a fracture.

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