Chapter Four
Aidan finally woke up late the next morning. We didn’t see him until that afternoon, though, as he was still very weak. But Zahrias wanted us to be there when Aidan recounted what had happened while he was out on that doomed hunting expedition.
A good night’s sleep seemed to have helped Jace a good deal, although the lovemaking we’d teased one another about had never materialized. Instead, I’d spent the night snuggled up against him, hoping I could lend him some of the warmth of my body the way he’d given me his during those cold November nights back in the Santa Fe house. In the darkness, he’d wrapped his arms around me, held me close, and something in that embrace was so tender, so fierce, that I couldn’t really regret not having s*x. Sometimes, just being next to one anot
