Page 65 of The Human’s Heart

I shook my head. “Nah. I want to stay up for a bit.”

“You sure?”

“Yes. I’m sick of sleeping so much.”

Toby finished rolling his sleeve down. “That’s normal, but I understand being ready to be awake.”

“Yeah, I think I maybe want to move around a bit.”

“Is that safe?” Zay asked him.

I could’ve complained that I knew my body better than anyone, but I wasn’t even sure if that was true anymore. I didn’t know this body at all. I could feel some differences already, and the fangs were the least of the strangeness. I could tell my senses were on overdrive, and I thought that maybe my strength was better too, but I wouldn’t know for sure until I tried it out.

Ooohhh! And I should have super-duper speed too.

That would be fun to test out.

“Yes, it’s perfectly safe. Whatever Hugo’s comfortable with is fine.”

I asked him, “Can we walk out of this room? It’s dark out now, right?” That was another thing. I was sure I could sense when the sun was up or down even though there were no windows in here at all, and I hadn’t looked at a clock even once since I’d woken up the first time.

“It’s dark out, yeah. I’m okay with walking through the house since you just ate, but Uncle Thayer’s home, and Kian is here too—he’s been staying here as well. Will you be okay with that, you think?”

Instead of automatically answering that yes, obviously I would be fine, I took a moment to think about it before I nodded. I didn’t want to risk my vampire side going nuts over someone else’s blood or whatever, but I honestly felt full and not even a little bit tempted to hunt down my own food source.

Plus, I really wanted to see Kian. I felt terrible that Zay and I hadn’t been here for him for the last few days. Understandable, yes, but I still felt bad. I was happy to know that Thayer had stepped in for us.

It was sweet that Key was here now.

“Yeah, I think I’ll be fine.”

He gave a nod and climbed off the bed, waving the two of us toward the door.

Even though I didn’t need the help, I let Zay pull me to my feet and wrap an arm around my waist. He was feeling… lots of things, so many things I couldn’t parse through them, and I knew he needed me close and probably needed to feel needed after being so helpless when I’d been hurt. Since I needed him close too, I was definitely good with this arrangement.

I felt horrible that he was so traumatized by what’d happened, but unfortunately, I didn’t think I could dive too deep into that until I felt more settled in my body.

Not to mention that I knew I had trauma there too, and I was definitely not ready to deal with it yet.

There were going to be lots of therapy appointments in both our futures, that was for sure.

Thank goodness there were some good supe therapists in our city these days.

I paused.

A supe therapist.

Holy shit. I was going to need a supe therapist too.

Because. I. Was. Also. A. Supe!

That was… that was… just wow. I was a supernatural being.

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

“Hugo? You okay?”

I blinked up at Zaos before grinning widely at him. “I’m a supe!”