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“I don’t think it’s going to be good news if he sees more,” she said quietly as she laid down on her good side.
“We’ll worry about it tomorrow. You need sleep, solnishko. You’ve been awake almost the entire day,” I said, wrapping my arms around her and pulling her as tight against me as I could.
“It was a big day,” she said, yawning. I could feel her relax as she pressed her body closer to mine. Her breathing slowed and I heard her make her cooing noises as she drifted off to sleep almost immediately.
I woke the next morning to find she was facing me, still sound asleep. That’s progress if she can lie on her bad shoulder. I took a moment to watch her sleep. I’d missed being able to see her face when I first woke in the mornings. I brushed her curls from her face and felt her start to stir. I kissed her forehead, not really caring if she woke up yet. I’d happily lie here and watch her sleep.
It took her a few more minutes to finally wake up. When she opened her eyes, her gorgeous smile stretched across her face immediately. “Hi,” she said sweetly. Since she wasn’t lying on her good arm, she reached up and ran her fingers lightly through my facial hair. I closed my eyes, enjoying her touch. “I’ve missed this,” she said.
“I’m surprised you’re lying on your bad shoulder. And your ribs. It doesn’t hurt you?” I asked.
“Not unless I move too much. I don’t even remember turning over.”
I opened my eyes once more. I could feel the warmth she felt in her body when she thought about me. I was struggling against my own desire for her. She laughed quietly. “Me too,” she said, smiling at me. I leaned down and kissed her. Gently at first, but I couldn’t help myself. I deepened the kiss, pulling her to me. I grabbed her leg, putting it over the top of mine, holding her ass firmly. She moaned quietly, her breaths coming faster and harder. I knew I had to stop or risk her not being able to catch her breath. I cursed as I stopped the kiss, rolling onto my back so I wouldn’t be tempted to continue.
I felt her hand on my stomach and heard her say, “Sorry,” quietly as she worked to catch her breath.
“You shouldn’t be. It’s not your fault you’re in this condition. You can bet Armando will pay for it later though,” I said. I could feel my anger coming to the surface thinking about taking my frustrations out on Armando for doing this to Sephie. I glanced at her when she stayed quiet. She had her eyes closed again. “You okay, solnishko?” I asked, running my fingers lightly over her cheek.
She smiled at me, but didn’t open her eyes. She nodded her head, then said, “I can feel your anger very strongly. I think it’s turned my eyes dark and I don’t want to make things worse for you than they already are.”
I laughed, my anger disappearing slowly. I kissed her forehead. “You can open your eyes, love. You won’t make things worse.”
She slowly opened her eyes. They were still dark, but in the process of turning normal again. I’d never seen it as it happened before. It was fascinating. I could clearly see the dark brown, almost black color fade into the background as the normal three rings of color returned. “Did you do that on purpose?” I asked.
“Do what on purpose?”
“I could watch them change this time. I’ve never seen it as it happened. It was incredible. It was like watching the night sky slowly wake up and turn into day,” I said, still mesmerized by her eyes.
“That sounds really complicated. I for sure didn’t do that on purpose,” she said, laughing.
I kissed her gently. “You’re amazing.”
The guys were waiting on us as usual when we came out from the bedroom. She seemed like she had more energy this morning than she’d had in weeks. I didn’t have to wait on her to walk slowly down the hallway. The guys noticed she was brighter this morning too.
“You look much better this morning, gazelle,” Misha said. He smiled at her, but was clearly surprised as well.
“I feel better this morning. First time I haven’t been in a fog when I wake up in a while,” she said. “I might actually want real food this morning too.”
Misha looked around at everyone else. “Thank God you’re all here to witness it this time. I can’t handle the pressure of how to document these milestones in her life,” he said.
For the first time since she’d been hurt, she laughed without grabbing her ribs. I could feel the dull ache that was constantly present there, but no sharp pains this time. It was a nice change.
“Let’s make a deal,” she said, turning to me. I raised my eyebrow at her, wondering what she had in mind. “If I can eat real food for breakfast, then we can try Andrei’s idea of Misha using both of us to find Sal as well as Martin. I want to know what those two are doing,” she said.
“Deal,” I said. I also wanted to know what those two were doing. If Martin was trying to make a deal with the Mexicans behind Trino’s back, that could put Trino in even more danger. The smile that she gave me when I agreed made my heart stop.
“How did you know that Trino and Martin were disagreeing on what to do with the Mexicans, princess?” Ivan asked.
“It just popped in my head. That’s how it works for me. Trino was thinking about it, probably trying to decide if he should bring it up or not. Given his reaction, I think he’d decided to not bring it up,” she said.
“His guys think she’s a witch now too,” I said, laughing.
Andrei laughed. “I noticed several of them made the sign of the cross. At least we don’t have to worry about them around her now. They won’t want to be around her.”
“Did you have the same thing pop in your head, Andrei?” Stephen asked. “I know you knew Trino was lying when he made excuses for Martin not being here.”
Andrei nodded his head. “I didn’t get as many details as Sephie though. I knew they’d had an argument, but that was all I could tell. She filled in way more details and Misha confirmed when he said Martin wasn’t in Colombia.”
