Then her body stopped shaking, and she sniffed.
“Dayne?” she murmured.
He stroked his hand down her soft hair, disappointed she hadn’t called him Babe again.
“Hmm.”
“Don’t take this the wrong way, but…” Her voice trailed off, and she sniffed again.
“What?” Since Talis wasn’t afraid to tell him anything unless it had to do with her past and her feelings, he couldn’t understand what she was so reluctant to say.
“Well. You smell. Like, so bad I’d like to move if that’s okay?”
It took brute force to hide his laughter, but somehow Dayne shoved it deep down inside him before he shifted his head to glare at her.
“Are you being serious?” he growled. “After I saved you, I didn’t say anything about how you smelled of sick and—”
Talis gripped his hair and lowered her face to his.
“I would s
