Fire in Her Blood by Rachel Graves

Author:Rachel Graves [Graves, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal, witch, vampire
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2017-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

We went back to my place, and I took a long hot shower with Jakob’s help. He did wonderful things that left me clean and well satisfied. Afterward I snuggled into bed next to him resolved to start running more often. I hadn’t realized how out of shape I was until the almost blacking out part of the race.

The next morning my body let me know running that fast without any training had been a bad idea. Everything hurt. Parts of me I didn’t remember having wanted to register how upset they were with me. Thankfully Jakob was dead to the world and couldn’t hear my groans. When the phone rang, I was sore enough to contemplate letting it go, but eventually I stumbled down stairs and managed a weak hello.

“What do you know about Ben?” A familiar voice said in an unfamiliar no nonsense tone.

“Good morning to you to, Isaura,” I said struggling to remember everything I knew about the big man. “Let’s see he’s an air witch.”

“I knew that.”

“Right, he’s got a big family back in Hawaii, but he’s the only one that left the island. That’s not how he says it though; he calls us the mainland.” I searched for something else. “I think he’s single, and he works the night shift.”

“You think he’s single? You’re not being particularly helpful here.”

“I assume he works out. I mean you don’t get to be his size naturally.”

“Oh I’m sure he works out. Did you see his chest? The man is buff. The question is does he only date other buff people? Are those people women?”

“Sorry, you’ll have to ask him yourself.”

She sighed a little. “You’re right, of course, but I was looking for some bit of brilliant insight.”

“Go call him,” I said. “Come up with some stupid pretense and call him, mention you’re going to be somewhere and wait for him to invite himself along.”

“I can’t. I gave him my number; he didn’t give me his. I mean, we were talking and hitting it off, so I’m sure he would have given it to me but I didn’t think to ask. Now I’m stuck here waiting.”

“Do not wait by the phone. The man works night shift. The chance he’s up and around at…” I searched for the clock and was a little shocked at the time. “You got me up at seven?”

“I was curious. Besides, it’s not like I woke Jakob.”

“Good to know his sleep matters to you.” My sarcasm was lost on the lovelorn. “Go do whatever you were going to do today, if you hear from Ben it won’t be until later.”

She grumbled a bit but finally agreed with my logic. I took two ibuprofen and hobbled back up to bed, hoping the drugs would kick in by the next time I woke up. They did, but when the phone woke me again at one o’clock, I cursed myself for not bringing it upstairs to the bedroom. Jakob stirred next to me, but I ended up back downstairs.

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