I laughed. “You can’t help yourself?”
“Nae,” he twisted in his seat. “If ye think on it, it winna be much fun tae give him some sad wee bites.”
I said, “I ought to have bought him a second one.”
“Twould be more interestin’, Alexandria, but I tell ye, as hungry as I am I might eat it as well.” He unwrapped the leftover bits of burger.
I teased, “If you think about it you’re saving us a lot of trouble by eating it, now we won’t have to take it with us.”
“We could pick up another one, but I will just keep eating. I will hae tae share food with Max another day.”
“Now what do we do?I’m going to grab a few things upstairs.”
He said, “While ye gather things inside, I will gather the horses. We will meet in the paddock tae jump.”
“We need to go fast so I don’t fall asleep.”
“Aye, me as well.”
I pulled up to the driveway, thinking in my head: Did I bring tampons? When was I going to start my period, next week?
Then I thought,What if I’m pregnant?
Yikes.
That would be terrible timing, but also, what else had I been doing besides trying to make a baby with my new husband?
Terrible timing.
I needed tampons.
I was not going to be pregnant, not in the middle of a battle for a throne.
I pulled up slowly in the driveway.
Dude met the car, trilling his head off.
I climbed out of the driver’s seat. “Hey Dude, ready for another trip?”
I petted him, then straightened, my eyes swept the landscape and met Torin’s.
The hairs on the back of my neck were standing on edge.
He said, “Ye feel it, mo leannan?”
“Yeah.” I looked over my shoulder, the woods ringing my yard looked dark and sinister.
He drew the gun Ryan had given him. “Ye hae five minutes, let me check the house afore ye go in.”
We strode up to the porch and I pushed buttons on my security system to enter. Then Torin ran up and down the halls looking in all the rooms. He jogged up the stairs opening doors and a few moments later he ran back down.
“Clear?”
“Aye, but go fast, mo leannan.”
I grabbed my gun from where I had left it on the entryway table and took the stairs two at a time. I found my backpack on the shelf in the closet and began shoving stuff inside. I brought my slippers and a curling rod, the unease crawled on my skin.
I became a little frantic. A smart person would have a bag already packed in case of emergencies.
