Page 25 of Wolf Bound

“It sure is.”

“You must be a light sleeper.” She really thought he would have slept through her climbing onto the bed.

“Only when I’m waiting for you to join me.”

She kissed his chest. “I love your bed. It’s just the perfect softness.” And he was the perfect hardness.

“I’m glad you like it. Did you learn anything about the kidnappers’ location?”

“No. I’ll try again tomorrow.”

And then they snuggled. She figured once he fell asleep, she would move away from him, but when she woke in the morning, he had cocooned her and oh, man, that was nice.

8

After spooning Kira during the night and feeling like a million bucks, Fisher woke to discover she had left the bed already. Then he realized what had awoken him. The aroma of bacon and eggs cooking, and coffee brewing in the kitchen. What a beautiful night, all because Kira had made it so special. He was about to climb out of bed when she came into the bedroom, carrying a tray with his breakfast.

“Wow, thanks so much.” He really hadn’t expected her to treat him like a king.

“You deserve it. Did you sleep okay?”

“It was my best night ever. I can’t believe I didn’t wake when you left the bed.”

She laughed. “I didn’t expect you to be spooning me this morning. I really didn’t wake you when I got up to do some searches?”

“No. I must have needed all the extra sleep.”

“You do. Your body is healing itself.”

“It is. I feel really great this morning. Where’s your breakfast?” He ate his eggs.

“I ate before I began doing research while you slept a bit longer. No luck yet. This is the tedious part of our jobs.”

He drank some of his coffee. “I don’t mind it. I’m a good researcher. I can do some of that for you.”

“I’ll take you up on it. I’ve got logins for several sites that we can access to view police reports and all kinds of other information to help us find the shifters we’re after. I finally realized these guys have a pattern though.” She explained to him what she had learned.

“So that gives us a couple of days before they snatch another kid,” he said.

“Yes. Unless they change their modus operandi.”

“Let’s hope not.” He ate the two slices of bacon. “Thanks for breakfast. It was great.”

“You’re welcome. I’m sure you slept better in your own bed than at the clinic.”

“With you? Yes.” Then he climbed out of bed to get dressed.

She carried the tray of his empty dishes back into the kitchen to clean up.

He hollered out, “I’ll get the dishes.”

“I’ve got them. You need to rest your shoulder.”

Then he realized just how hard it was to dress one-handed. He struggled to pull down his boxer briefs before he heard Kira running down the carpeted hall to his bedroom.

She quickly joined him. “So sorry. I forgot how hard it was for you to dress with only one good working arm.” She eyed his boxer briefs.

“Go for it.”

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