Chapter 11
The glow of the morning sun tried to cast an enchantment on my eyelids to prise them open, only they were too heavy. What finally coaxed me to wake up was the sound of someone breathing, right in front of my face. I smiled at Bane’s silhouetted outline as he leaned down to kiss me. And then I yelped as he shifted enough for the light to show his features. It wasn’t Bane.
A close-up of Jake’s eyebrow ring and stubble was not something I wanted to see so soon after waking. Let alone his sharp gaze that seemed to want to cut and s***h and stab at whatever he looked at. His laugh was a study in arrogance.
‘It’s not the response I usually get. Still, I think I like it,’ he remarked as I scrambled away and promptly fell out of the bed in a tangle of blankets.
‘What the hell?’ I fr
