It had just gone 3 am by his body’s count, and Walker was struggling to keep his eyes open. He hadn’t even been up that long either, just since Willow’s call, but he was well and truly out of it. Trying to keep reading the medical text he’d picked and regretted wasn’t doing him any favors either. He kept catching himself when his head bobbed toward his chest, eyes fluttering as he struggled to reread the same line again and again.
Beside him, Meriwa slept softly. She only snored every once in a while, like a snuffling little piglet having pleasant dreams.
Every time she did so, he smiled to himself.
He supposed he could watch her sleep. That would be infinitely more entertaining than the book, only creepy as all hell – so he didn’t.
Already he felt a little icky about kissing her while
