When he was gone, I whispered, “I screamed last night?”
“Yeah,” Prime said.
I blinked rapidly.“Uh, care to elaborate a bit?”I obviously didn’t remember screaming.All I remembered was waking up, convincing Prime to let me watch TV, and then I promptly passed out on the couch.
He shrugged and set the pan on the stove.“Not much else to say about it.You were sleeping, you screamed, I made sure you were okay, and then you went back to sleep.”
I stifled a laugh.“When you put it that way, I guess it wasn’t much of a big deal.”Though I was a bit embarrassed I had screamed.One perk of living and sleeping in my car was that no one was around when I sleep talked or screamed.
“You’ve been through a lot of shit, babe.It would be kind of odd if you were able to sleep like a baby.”The pan sizzled as he dropped a pat of butter in and then poured in the scrambled eggs.
Five minutes later, he slid a plate of scrambled eggs and toast in front of me.“Eat.”
“I feel like a toddler.”
“Then eat like one.”
I glared at him but took a bite anyway.The eggs were good.I had no idea how that was possible, given the amount of stress radiating from him.
“You actually cook?”I asked between bites.
“Everyone here cooks,” he said.“We’d starve otherwise.”
“You’re actually kind of good.”
“Don’t spread it around.I’ll get assigned kitchen duty again.”
I shook my head and tried to hide my smile behind a piece of toast.
He leaned on the counter across from me, arms crossed, and watched me eat like it was his only job.
It was unnerving.
Comforting.
All at once.
How was what that possible?I should be terrified and ready to crawl out of my skin here.There was a psycho out there trying to kill me.I should be trying to figure out why I was here, and not eating eggs with a sexy biker.
Ugh, that was another thing I needed to figure out.
Prime.
“Shay.”
I looked up.
He wasn’t glaring or trying to be intimidating.
He was serious.
“You’re safe here,” he said.“You’re not alone.We’ll figure out the why.All of it.But you don’t have to figure it out today.”
My jaw dropped open with a mouthful of egg.“Did you just read my mind?”
Prime chuckled.“No.I can tell what you’re thinking by the way you look.”
I wrinkled my nose.“I looked terrified, confused, and—” I wasn’t going to finish that.He did not need to know that I thought he was sexy.
