Chapter Four
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“Merrick.”
He frowned. He didn’t wish to come out of the floating black sea of unawareness that had held him in its tight embrace for what seemed like an eternity. It was rather pleasant there. He didn’t have to worry about anything.
“Merrick, you’ve had enough blood for two Dark Ones. You must wake up now.”
He was given blood? That must be why he was feeling relatively well.
“Merrick, by the saints, if you don’t wake up now, Allegra will be back, and she will insist on bathing you, and that will just end in another argument where I have to forbid her from handling your n***d self, and she will accuse me of being jealous. Wake the hell up so I don’t have to be jealous.”
Merrick cracked an eye open. “It’s not my problem if your woman prefers my manly form over y
