I instantly snapped my head toward the locked door, a heavy, cold sense of unease settling deep inside my chest. I stood up, my muscles tightening. “I should go check on her.”
“What’s the matter, worried she got hurt?” Hunter eyed me from the corner, his gaze sharp and entirely mocking. “Relax, Romeo. The chicken apocalypse was your brilliant idea.”
He didn’t need to remind me. When I had hauled her shivering, half-conscious body out of that freezing pool and carried her up the stairs myself, I thought a harmless prank would be the perfect way to break her elite pride. I wanted her to wake up annoyed, not injured. While I was dumping her into the tub, Harris had been hovering over my shoulder the entire time, looking like he was about to have a stroke, snapping that she was a delicate la
