Good plan.
“Who are we exhuming?” North asked as he walked into the room.
“Fergus.”
“Good plan. I can have a digger there in an hour.”
Jared waved his hand. “Give me a few, I might change my mind.”
“That’s a shame,” North said.
“Um, what?” Angie asked, looking alarmed. “I don’t . . . that’s not . . . you’re not really going to do that, right?”
“No,” he told her. Maybe.
“Whew. And you don’t need to turn the heat up,” she added. “It’s already really warm in here. You guys will roast. So will poor Rex having to work in the kitchen.”
Jared didn’t argue, but he did give North a look.
The other man gave him a miniscule nod. “Rex still isn’t back yet.”
Jared frowned. Rex had been with him for years. He was the only man he trusted to cook for him other than North. Rex had been traveling with North and Jared when his people had been taken out by Beltran.
Two more hours. Then North was going hunting.
“I will get some socks,” North said. “I saw some onesies with built-in mittens and feet, would you like some of them?”
“Yes. Thanks,” Jared replied, taking the socks and putting them on her poor feet.
“From now on, you always wear socks, understand?” Jared commanded. “That is one of your rules.”
“What? I have to wear socks?”
“Yes. And if you get cold, you need to tell me or North. Another rule.”
“What if it’s summertime? And I don’t want to wear socks?”
“We’ll decide when it gets to summer. This is the rule for now. Are there any other side effects from . . . from the way you were treated by that fucker?”
She looked a bit uncomfortable, then she nodded. “Yes.”
“What are they?” North asked.
“Sometimes I get really bad headaches.”
“I didn’t see any pills in your bathroom for headaches,” North said.
“You looked through my bathroom cupboards?” she asked, horrified.
“Yes, I was looking for medication that I would need to bring with me. It wasn’t there.”
“What did you see in there?” she squealed.
“I don’t know. Normal stuff. Tampons, pads, soap, razor.”
Poor baby looked like she was about to melt into a pool of embarrassment but Jared wasn’t sure why. Over tampons and pads?
“Oh, and a massive dildo.”
