“I’ll try to take a look at that too. Kellan, help me get her bed set up. Do you want it in the biggest bedroom?” Eli asked.
“Oh, yes. But you don’t need to do that,” she protested, shifting on the seat as she prepared to get up.
“Stay there,” Kellan told her. “We are doing this. No arguing.”
Just let them do it.
It’s not like you can manage it.
And her back was just starting to feel better. She let out a sigh of relief as the heat began relaxing her muscles.
Closing her eyes, she felt herself getting sleepy. Horse lay on her feet and she snuggled further into the chair. She’d barely slept lately between the move and the lack of a bed.
She’d been sleeping on the chair since the mattress hurt her back.
Suddenly, the power went out and she let out another cry.
Shit.
She couldn’t see anything. Panic rose as she started to feel like she was suffocating.
Her breathing grew faster and faster. She hadn’t thought that she was particularly scared of the dark, but this was pitch black.
A whimper escaped her and she reached down, feeling for Horse. “You okay, Horse?”
He licked her hand and some of that panic faded.
“Arabella?” Eli called out. “Are you all right?”
“Y-yes,” she said. Crap. Her voice sounded so shaky. “I’m all right.”
“You don’t sound all right, baby,” he said soothingly. “It’s all right. I’m coming to you.”
Sure. Okay.
She heard him bang into something and start swearing.
Shit.
“Are you all right?” she asked worriedly.
“Yeah, how is it that you’ve got no furniture and yet I found something to bang my toe on,” he grumbled.
“It’s because you’re clumsy,” Kellan said.
“I’m not clumsy. It’s pitch black. Why is it pitch black?” he grumbled.
Oh no.
He sounded really annoyed and she couldn’t help but feel guilty.
“I’m so sorry,” she said.
“You do not need to apologize,” Kellan told her. “It’s the storm’s fault.”
Yeah, but they were here to help her. If they hadn’t come here she’d have been in the dark on her own.
Shoot.
