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“Kyle?” She forced her eyes to open, and he was there beside her. Holding her hand.
He was…sitting at her bedside?
A nurse stood behind him.
“Hey,” he said softly. “Welcome back.”
“Where did I go?” Eveline asked. What was going on? Her concentration was dealing with not moaning at the aches and pains of her body.
“Hi, I’m Regina, and I’m your nurse. Can you tell me what your name is?” The woman who’d been standing behind Kyle patted her leg.
“Eveline Durville.”
“Do you know what day it is?” she asked.
“Thursday.”
Regina smiled. “Close enough, it’s the early hours of Friday morning. Do you know where you are?”
“Well seeing as you’re a nurse and I can see the heart monitor machine, as well as the IV attached to me, I’d say I was in hospital.”
Kyle chuckled again, and the sound warmed her, taking a little sting out of her body pains. “Score one for Eveline.”
Regina smiled. “I do suppose that was an obvious one.”
The nurse peppered her with questions about what the date was. What year it was. Who was the President? All questions she’d been able to answer easily.
“Do you remember what happened to you?” Regina asked, her brow furrowed as if Eveline’s answer would mean she passed with flying colors or by getting this one question wrong she failed the test.
Eveline searched her mind to see if she could seek out the answer. All it did was make her head ache even more than it already was. “No, I can’t,” she said. The feeling of defeat mixed with her body’s discomfort and washed over her.
Regina patted her leg again. “That’s okay, and it’s often the case directly after a head injury. On a scale of one to ten, how’s your pain level?”
“Six or seven,” Eveline said. It was probably more at a level of an eleven, but she didn’t want to say that. The longer she’d been awake, and the more questions she’d answered, the more her form had rebelled at the actions, even though she was lying down and not physically exerting herself.
“We’ll get you some pain meds. I’ll be back soon.”
A second later, she disappeared, and it was only her and Kyle in the room.
“How bad is your pain level, really?” He studied her intently, and the temptation to lie was high, but in the end, she couldn’t.
“Let’s just say it’s more than a seven.” Eveline shifted and winced.
Her whole body ached. What it looked like beneath the sheets was something she wasn’t keen on seeing any time soon, but she’d have to—just not now.
“That’s what I thought.” Kyle leaned forward.
She prepared herself to be peppered with questions about what happened to her. She was surprised he hadn’t already done that, but with the nurse being in the room, it was a little difficult to start an interrogation.
“How the fuck were you able to make it my office without passing out?”
Well, that was unexpected. Not even close to what she thought he’d ask her. “I didn’t start feeling lightheaded until I got into the elevator. Adrenaline pushed me through, I guess.”
I knew if I got to you I’d be safe.
Eveline had no idea where the thought came from, but it was true. They’d only spent one night together. One night was all she needed to know that there is no way Kyle would hurt her. That was why she hadn’t gotten her cell out and called the police.
Not with the way he’d kissed every inch of her body. The way he took possession of her gently. His anger had only surfaced after she’d told him who she worked for.
