Rachel
Rachel
“I… I want you. Both of you. I want it all. But today? Right now?” I shook my head. There was too much going on around us. I couldn’t think about happily ever after when a man I’d just met, a human, a new friend had literally just died in my arms. When the black sickness was spreading on Maxim’s body and I had no idea how to stop it. When the doctor was surly and watching me like I was the enemy. When the lab results didn’t add up.
My brain was crunching data like a computer. I could feel it, churning, thinking, putting the pieces together. This was what I did. I absorbed data, looked at the facts, and then I let them simmer in my head until my brain literally ached, until I became consumed with the puzzle. Until I solved it.
Ryston ran his fingers over the collar about m
