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She pressed her mouth into a thin line.
I tried again as rain began to pound down on top of us. Had she blocked the portals somehow?
Sliding my tongue over my teeth, I opened a portal to the hotel I’d stayed several nights before. Oddly enough, it let me through.
Gathering Josephine’s body into my arms, I stepped forward, looking over my shoulder. “You coming?”
She bit her bottom lip in a way that cemented me to my spot. It annoyed me how everything she did slid along my skin.
“Last time, it was ...”
“Listen,” I said, feeling my irritation rise. “You don’t what I say—”
“...what you say. I know,” she said, rolling her eyes.
I lifted both brows, feeling a mixture of shock and warmth settle in my stomach. Did we know each other, and I'd forgotten? There was no way in Hell I'd forget her. “Come on. Now.”
She slipped beside me, her scent heavy in the air, suffocating what sanity I had out of my body. I watched as she took a deep breath, stepped forward, and was sucked through the portal.
A wolf’s howl echoed through the Dark Woods around me. This time it seemed like a warning. Deidamia was coming. What she brought with her I didn't care to imagine.
The portal sucked me through as I clung tight to Josephine’s body, and we were whipped around. Being I’d done this tons of times, I landed on my feet in front of the hotel.
My gaze traveled over the Aztec stone to Josephine sitting on the sidewalk, cradling a bloody leg.
The jagged rocks below were stained with her blood.
I hadn’t thought about this spirit person being able to bleed. Her too-blue eyes looked up at me, nearly knocking me off my feet. “Weird, isn’t it?”
I stared.
“That I’m bleeding. I’m in a dream, right? This is a dream?”
I sighed, adjusting her lifeless body in my arms, I walked her over to a wooden bench and placed her down. “No,” I answered. “Is that how you know who I am?”
“I’ve been dreaming of you,” she said nonchalantly.
Curling my fingers into fists, I cleared the uncomfortable lump down my throat. The invisible string that attached me to this person felt ridiculous, which was ironic since I’d just fought a talking wolf to save this sleeping beauty from a wicked witch.
I stopped beside her. Looking down at the top of her head, I sighed. “There is a stream behind this building. Let’s wash you off.”
She stood and immediately went down with weak legs.
She chuckled humorlessly as I caught her inches from the jagged rocks. “Wow, what a load for you. A passed-out lug to carry around with her spirit-dream-ish-self following you around. Priceless. I hope my father pays you well.”
Wrapping my arm around her waist, I lifted her to my side and then glanced down at her bare feet. “You need shoes. Come on.”
I swung her legs upward and into an infant’s cradle. She gasped softly, her arms swinging around my deltoids.
The touch of her skin against mine sent my body into a raging fit of unwanted hormones. It’d been many moons since I had to fight off urges toward a woman.
My wife being the last.
This wasn’t right. Maybe it was the realm. Deidamia could have put something on me, couldn’t she? Something to deter my rationality? That had to be this madness swarming me. She is attempting to throw me off.
Josephine’s gaze lifted toward mine. Against my better judgment, I looked down at her. The moonlight brightened her eyes and sent shadows over her high-cheek bones and mouth.
Dear God. Stop.
