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“I’ll do it. Just grab me a washcloth from the bathroom and hand it to me.” When she does nothing but stand there, it pisses me off. “We can either stay here and keep having this pissing contest or you can help. We need to get her warmed up more and the longer that takes could be bad for her.”
That seems to get her going and to forget about me. She walks away and heads into the bathroom. When she comes back, I take the cloth from her and give Winter a wipe down. This will have to do because she’s still passed out. I don’t want to put her in a bath right now. When she wakes up, she can decide if she wants a shower or not.
I look down at her body as I’m wiping it down and can’t help but notice how she’s lost weight. I guess everything must have been taking a toll on her and I didn’t notice before. She’s all skin and bones now. Of course, you didn’t notice, asshole! You were too busy with your revenge quest.
Just as I’m finishing up her bird bath, the girls walk back into the room with her clothes and the heated blankets. I take everything from them and then begin to dress Winter. Her body shivers and I put the blankets over her body before climbing into bed next to her.
“We should be the ones taking care of her. You don’t need to be here. We all know how much you hate her. You’re probably having a field day with everything that’s been happening to her,” Riley mutters, and I let out a long sigh.
“Like I said earlier, we’re still on that truce, okay? I’m taking care of her for now and when she gets better, we can go back to hating each other,” I tell them.
“Why? Why would you want to take care of someone you hate?” Riley asks, and I wish I fucking knew the answer to that. The girls all look at me with their mouths hanging open and yeah, I don’t want to even analyze what the fuck I’m doing either.
“Honestly, I have no fucking clue,” I say.
“There’s nothing wrong with still loving her. You should both put the past behind you because if you keep going, it won’t end well…” she says, trailing off when my jaw clenches.
“Can we talk about this some other time? I don’t want to talk about this shit right now,” I tell her, and it sounds harsher than I mean it to, but I don’t care.
She nods and looks at me as though she can see right through me, like she knows the answers to the questions I won’t answer. She lets out a sigh before they all head to the door.
“Hurt her and I will fucking kill you, Mason. I don’t care how rich and powerful you are, I’ll find a way,” she says, and I roll my eyes.
She turns the light off before closing the door behind her, leaving Winter and me alone in the dark. I believe they said body heat helps to keep you warm, so I pull her closer and into my arms. I wrap her up in them and just lie there, contemplating everything that has gone wrong between us ever since I saw someone else fucking her.
Fuck! Just thinking about it again feels like a knife stabbing me in the chest. It still fucking hurts more than I’d like it to.
Looking down at her, I can barely see her face in the darkness, but from the bit I can see, she looks so peaceful right now. I have to admit this is the first time I’ve seen her like this in a long time and yeah, I know I’m the one mainly responsible for her unhappiness, but I couldn’t bring myself to care.
My mind goes back to what the girls said earlier, and they’re right. It looks as though someone is after her and now, I need to somehow figure out who that is. I’m sure she’s not psychotic enough to stab herself in the stomach, right?
I push that thought away because even if she did do that to herself, it wouldn’t explain the gunshots. She might be a lot of things, but I don’t think she’d go that far on the crazy train. This whole situation is fucked and complicated. I don’t even know where I’d even begin to look for clues.
All I do know is that I need to look into this and do some digging. If someone is stalking her, then no one is safe. They could use someone else to get to her, namely one of her friends, and knowing Winter, she’d run right into danger to help.
I haven’t been paying too much attention to what’s been happening in Ravenwood because I’ve been too occupied with her, but it looks like I need to get back to knowing everything that happens there. After all, I’m the king there and no one ever goes against me.
Eventually, when I get too exhausted to keep my eyes open any longer, I fall asleep with Winter in my arms. The last thought I have before that happens is how much her body still feels good next to mine and how long it’s been since we’ve been like this—blissfully peaceful, with no fighting or arguing.
