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“How old are you, boy?”
“I’m almost twenty.”
“That means nineteen.”
“And a half. I’m plenty old enough to handle you.”
“Is that right?” he said, smirking at me.
He muttered something and waved that damn hand of his again, and I found myself frozen in place again. This was beginning to get annoying. I couldn’t even speak—all I could do was send him a look that relegated him to the lowest levels of hell. He came over to swoop me up in his arms and carry me toward this stream he’d mentioned. He carted me around like luggage, and I hated the way he so easily manhandled me.
Who was I kidding? I loved it, dammit. It greatly appealed to my omega soul.
It wasn’t far through the woods, and after we arrived, he sat me back on my feet and passed his hand over me again. Not only could I finally move, but the hateful cape vanished too, leaving me naked again..
It was good news in a way, but it left me shivering and freezing to death in the cold, because—still naked. “Dammit, it’s freezing!”
“I know and I’m sorry, but you have to bathe first. Then I’ll conjure you up some fresh clothing. Well, go ahead,” he said, as I continued to stand there. “Get in and wash and you can take a proper bath when we get to an inn.”
I glared at him but turned and put in a toe. I gasped in shock because it was literally freezing cold. There was ice at the edges! I looked back at him, and he was ignoring me, half turned away to give me privacy, I guess, and staring off in the trees. He looked impatient, as always. I got a really bad feeling about this but decided there was no help for it. The stream was maybe a foot or two deep, but fast running over the rocks and making a lot of noise. I took a deep breath and stepped in gingerly and promptly jumped back out again as my feet went numb. He glanced over at me in irritation.
“What’s the matter? Stop dithering around and wash yourself. It’s cold out here away from the fire.”
“I noticed! That water is freezing cold, and I’ll catch pneumonia and die if I get in it!”
He rolled his eyes. “Stop shouting at me. You’re being overly dramatic. Just crouch there on the edge and clean your…your private areas.”
“No. You clean yours. You smell too, you know.”
He frowned. “My smell won’t bring around every Alpha from anywhere close. Now wash, or I’ll do it for you.”
Since I knew he was a big enough ass to try just that, I knelt by the stream and tried to splash water over myself. The water was so cold it took my breath away.
I got back to my feet. “Okay, I’m done.”
He flicked a glance at me and shook his head. “No, you’re not. It’s not nearly enough. Sit down in the water a few seconds and really rinse off.”
“No.”
He looked back at me and narrowed his eyes. “What did you say?”
“You heard me. No. I’m not doing it. So go ahead; be a damn bully and make me. I’m not going in that water any other way.”
He took a step toward me, and I panicked. He wasn’t even doing anything except looking all big and Alpha. But I pulled back my fist and swung it toward him as hard as I could, putting everything I had behind it.
He simply stepped to one side.
Whereas I, because I was on the rocky ground and cold as hell and mad as fuck, lost my balance and my footing and tumbled backward and right into the creek, sitting down hard in an icy little pool.
It took my breath away. I literally couldn’t even gasp in a single breath, and I instantly began to panic. He must have seen it on my face because he rolled his eyes and came wading in to rescue me, picking me up and carrying me back to the bank. When we climbed out, I was shivering and felt like I’d turned into a big blob of ice, but at least I’d made him get wet too. He set me back on my feet, and we both stood glaring at each other, mad as two wet hens, our chests heaving up and down.
“I hate you!” I screamed at him.
“I don’t care!”
“You better sleep with one eye open, Lexington!”
“I already do, because I have to sleep next to you!”
