Kali’s Deadly Kiss
No jury in the world would convict me.
The thought seeped slowly through Kalima’s mind as she struggled towards consciousness. Outside the tent, the camp was beginning to stir as the sun rose above the eastern treeline. Birds twittered, filling the air with cheerful song. Insects hummed in the grass. In a few hours, the temperature would be practically unbearable, but for now it was still pleasantly cool.
All in all, Kalima thought muzzily, she would have been perfectly content to roll over and try to catch another twenty or thirty minutes of sleep before getting up for breakfast.
Except for the fact that her tentmate was vigorously m**********g less than five feet away, her soft groans making her clench her teeth in aggravation.
It wasn’t Jessica’s fault, she suppo
