“Heya, gorgeous. No, not at all. The rest are out on watch”
Naked to the waist, he wore the combat pants she’d seen him in earlier, now grubby and stained on one leg. She didn’t ask what the stain was. She had a feeling she didn’t want to know.
“Don’t you guys get cold feet?” she couldn’t help asking as she noted his bare toes peeking out from under the pants leg.
A low chuckle rumbled around the room, the buzz in her ears telling Lillian most of the sound was outside her hearing range. Outside any human’s hearing range.
“Nope.”
He moved past her to the window. Standing to one side, he twitched the curtain and checked outside. Whatever he saw out there made him relax, the slight tension she hadn’t been aware of leaving his broad shoulders. Within seconds, it was back again as his gaze
