“Well, well, what have we here,” a hissing voice reached his ears. It sounded like a goat, if the goat was a mile away. Annabelle flinched. “A little s**t wading into danger? If these good folks could have seen you last night, rolling like a b***h in heat, you wouldn't be so brave, but I know… I know.”
Annabelle gulped. Her face turned white and then red, and her knees buckled. Gavin quickly wrapped his arm around her. “That's not what happened, remember?” he reassured her.
Annabelle stared at him for a moment as long as a single pounding heartbeat. Time seemed to stretch. Then, she nodded. Her cheeks remained pink, but the fiery color faded.
“Only a beast like yourself would dare invade the privacy of the marriage bed,” she shouted at a patch of shimmering heat in front of them. “You a
