THE WOMAN LYING ON his bed was, without a doubt, lovely. And she was giving him some truly delightful ideas for the near future, but she was a terrible liar. “Headaches?”
“Yes. I’m sorry if I frightened you.”
Edric stared into her incredible green eyes and tried to figure out what she could be hiding. Something had happened to her in that hallway. It had been too dark for him to see much, but the light from his door when he’d thrown it open had illuminated her slightly at the opposite end of the hall. She’d fallen sideways, against the wall, as if she’d been struck. And she’d cried out. It hadn’t been a sound of pain. It had sounded more like fear.
If you add in the frantic behavior of the cat, and the fact that the air had been frigid when he’d arrived, just in time to catch her when s
