How weird.
So weird, my brows shot up. “Seriously?”
One side of his mouth twitched. “Seriously.”
He looked hot with one side of his mouth twitching so I decided I was done.
Therefore, I stated, “Thank you for the lesson. You can go now.”
His eyes stayed glued to mine and I let them mostly because I had no choice. The guy had proven time and again he was freaking strong so I could never best him physically and wasn’t going to try.
The bummer of this was, he didn’t move.
Then he said quietly, “We must talk.”
“Welp, Prince Noctorno, sorry to disappoint you but I am way, so done talking to you.”
He shook his head. “We must talk,” he repeated.
“I have nothing to say and you have nothing to say I want to hear.”
“We need to talk about what happened in the church.”
My body went solid. “No, we absolutely, definitely, without a doubt, totally do not need to talk about what happened in the church.”
“Cora –”
“Go away.”
“Cora –”
“I said go away. I’m tired. My body’s sore from riding all day. I need sleep before I’m on my way again…” I paused then finished, “on foot.”
“Cora –”
“Don’t worry, I won’t bleed on anything. I, obviously, don’t have any se**n so we’re good on that score and I promise to be careful with my saliva.”
“Gods damn it, Cora.”
“Seriously! Go!”
He didn’t go.
Nope. He didn’t.
What he did do was dart a hand out, wrap his fingers around my ankle and yank it out and straight down the bed. Unfortunately, as my body was attached to it, it too went down the bed. Then he shifted to lying and rolled right, smack on top of me.
I shoved at his shoulders, shouting, “Get off me!”
“Calm yourself,” he commanded.
“Get… off… me!”
“Calm yourself!” he barked.
“And what if I don’t!” I yelled back. “You gonna shake me so hard I see stars? Or toss me around?”
“I had another idea to get you to obey.”