Chapter 4-Sten
“Oh, this is vile. This is absolutely ghastly.”
Amrin held her breath dramatically as she shoved another armful of clothes into the washer, her nose wrinkling in disgust.
I leaned against the doorway of the tiny laundry alcove attached to my quarters and crossed my arms, watching her struggle with what was likely the eighth pair of black pants she’d unearthed from the disaster that was my room.
“It’s not that bad,” I muttered.
Her head whipped toward me.
“Sten, I found something growing in one of your mugs.”
“That narrows it down very little.”
She stared.
Then laughed.
Actually laughed.
Soft at first, then louder, warm and bright and entirely too fucking pretty for a place like this.
Gods.
That sound did things to me.
I dragged my gaze away before she noticed—before I noticed anything else about this captivating Witch.
Too late.
I’d already noticed everything else about her.
The oversized black t-shirt she wore—mine—hung off one shoulder, exposing smooth pale skin that still carried the faint pink flush from the rainstorm earlier.
Her own shirt was tumbling around in the dryer behind her, and I was having increasingly violent thoughts about sabotaging the machine so she’d never put it back on.
Who the fuck wore white on an island where it rained seventy percent of the time?
Apparently, one absentminded little Witch with her head permanently in the clouds.
Not that I was complaining.
The memory of that soaked white fabric plastered against her body had nearly killed me.
And the pink bra underneath?
Sweet gods above.
Whoever invented bras deserved worship.
Some powerful Sorcerer had clearly crafted those things with divine intervention, because how two tiny scraps of lace and wire managed to lift and frame her breasts like an offering to the heavens was beyond me.
And my ancestor was the actual fucking Moon—how’s that for reference?
Rrrrr.
I shifted slightly against the wall as she bent to grab the now-empty laundry basket, the tight little shorts she’d changed into stretching obscenely across the curve of her ass.
