Kade threw me a smug grin and rested his head on my hip. “I’m more than just a pretty face.”
I snorted, running my fingers through his hair. “No lie there,” I agreed. “Now, why don’t you come up here and let me help you out?”
Kade’s grin grew sheepish and he drew his right hand up for me to see. “I finished when you did.”
Well, crap. Just when I didn’t think Hot Alpha could get hotter.
“Imma grab a towel,” Kade said, dropping a kiss on my hip. “Then it’s snack time.”
I huffed, but laughed when he glared at me. “Yes, Alpha,” I agreed meekly.
“You got that right, boy,” Kade mock-snarled, winking before he turned and let me ogle his ass on his way to the bathroom.
Damn, but he was a work of art.
He sauntered back with a warm cloth and wiped me down, but when I would have gotten up to follow him to the kitchen, he twitched his chin at the bed. “You stay right there,” he ordered with a wink. “I’ll be back in a minute.”
I rolled my eyes as he left the room. Seriously, now I even had to eat in bed? I was about to disobey and follow anyway when he suddenly reappeared, a pile of my new clothes held to his chest.
“Socks,” he announced, pulling them onto my feet, one at a time. “Then some undies.” He slid them onto my legs and waited patiently for me to lift my hips.
“You’re going to dress me?” I asked with a small laugh. “Seriously?”
“Yes,” Kade said simply, pulling the drawers up over my hips and smoothing the soft waistband over my tummy.
He reached for my hand and pulled me to my feet, placing my hands on his shoulders. “Hold on.” He lifted one foot after the other, slipping them into the legs of my cookie pants before drawing them up and tying the cord at the waist.
“Now the shirt,” he murmured, nodding for me to raise my arms and sliding the soft brown sweatshirt over my head. “There we go,” Kade said softly, a satisfied smile on his lips as he looked at me. He reached over and grabbed his cell phone, shoving it in his pocket before reaching for my hand again. “Now you can come out and have your snack.”
In the kitchen, Kade hustled me to a chair and proceeded to haul an armload of groceries from the fridge to the island, followed by another batch collected from the various cabinets and pantry shelves.
I started to protest – nobody neededthatbig of a snack – but promptly zipped it when Kade gave methe look.
As Kade chopped and sliced his way through the piles, we made small talk about the town of Sharon Hill, laughing about the tourist traps and comparing what sights we’d never seen. When Kade finally pronounced the snack ready, I was staring at a beautifully prepared meat, cheese, and veggie tray.
I shook my head. “I’m not sure I even believe that an Alpha on his own had that many vegetables in his fridge.
Kade broke out that smug smile of his again and popped a red bell pepper strip into his mouth. “I’m a man of many mysteries.”
I snagged a slice of swiss cheese from the tray and slid it between two crackers. “Do tell.”
“Where’s the fun in that?” Kade teased me.
I was still chewing when his pocket buzzed. Kade fished the phone out and tapped the screen. The first text made his eyes sparkle as he sent me a dirty grin. “You’re clean.”
Even though it had barely been an hour since I’d unloaded down Kade’s throat, the promise in those amber eyes was all it took for my dick to spring to life.
He flipped to a second message and the grin froze, then faded away.
“What? What’s wrong?” My stomach clenched, making me glad I’d barely started eating.
“We have to go to the hospital,” Kade said, his voice oddly hollow. “The other blood work the doc did came back hinky.” He said with a frown. “She said you’re severely anemic. You need a transfusion as soon as possible.”
Well, fuck.
“But..”
Kade just shook his head. “Don’t stress over it. We’ll go during the dinner hour when there aren’t as many people. She said she’ll put you in a private room and they’ll run it through as if I was the one getting the blood.”
