Spellbound (Crossbreed Series Book 8) by Dannika Dark

Author:Dannika Dark [Dark, Dannika]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dannika Dark
Published: 2019-11-02T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Something smelled delicious, and it wasn’t the sheets beneath her nose. When Gem lifted her head and looked around, she spotted a food cart next to the bed. Someone must have had a time pulling that up the stairs. A fire hissed and crackled in the hearth, but that wasn’t the noise that drew her attention. It was the heavy breathing in the center of the room where Niko was doing push-ups. His muscles quivered, and his back glistened with sweat.

“What time is it?” Gem propped the pillows behind her and sat up. “My internal clock is all screwy.”

When he rested on his forearms and turned toward her, he looked more like himself. He no longer had that strange beard, and his long hair was bound in a thin braid. “Time is irrelevant when your body requires healing. Rest all you need.”

“I don’t see you resting.”

“But I did. For over a month.”

Her eyes rounded when she looked down at her black shorts and turquoise shirt. Where did her dress go? These were her sleep clothes!

Niko stood up and approached the bed. “What troubles you?”

She blushed all over. How mortifying!

“Maybe you can’t see like everyone else, Niko, but that doesn’t mean you can just walk in on people in the bathroom or strip off their clothes. I was perfectly fine in that dress.”

Niko bowed. “My apologies for entering the bathroom.”

“And taking off my clothes?”

He strode to the food cart. “I will not apologize for that.”

She pulled the sheet up to her chin. “And why not?”

Niko poured some orange juice into a glass and held it out to her. “If you wish for an apology, you’ll have to ask Kira for one. She came in and dressed you hours ago. Then Switch lifted you while we changed the bedding.”

She took the orange juice. “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t be so critical. I just have insecurities about people seeing me naked.”

A smile touched his lips. “Then you have nothing to worry about with me.” He lifted a silver dome on the cart and revealed a platter filled with sausages, bacon, hash browns, and freshly sliced tomatoes.

“Eat with me,” she insisted, still in disbelief that she’d slept through all that. “There’s a chair just behind you that Viktor brought in during your coma.”

While Niko retrieved the wooden chair from the corner, Gem fixed them both a plate before pushing the low cart out of the way.

Niko sat facing the cart, and she handed him his food.

“Thank you.”

Gem crossed her legs and put a cloth napkin over them. She decided it was time for a change in subject before she stuck her foot in her mouth again. “Where do you think Kira shifts? I’ve never seen her animal. It’s all very mysterious.”

“I assume she likes her privacy.”

“We all like privacy, but I don’t see how her animal can be happy inside a room. Maybe she’s a turtle.”

“Or a skunk.”

Gem smiled and decided that talking about someone else wasn’t the best topic either. She couldn’t help but be curious about people’s private affairs, and sometimes that crossed the line of intrusion.

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