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She spread the blanket down on the sofa, tugging out her pillow and laying back to stare at the ceiling while Jaxon got on the floor.
He flipped off the light, and they were both lying in the dark. As her eyes adjusted, she took in the room. It wasn’t half bad, the bones of the house. Of course, she’d only seen the kitchen and the living room. There was an entire upstairs, a bathroom, and she assumed a master bedroom that she hadn’t seen yet.
“Thanks for letting me stay here.”
“No problem,” he countered, sounding half asleep.
“No, I mean it. Thank you for all of it. For coming when I called and helping me secure my apartment and for dealing with Eric and-”
“No problem,” he repeated. “Good night, Teagan.”
She swallowed thickly, bringing the blanket up as her teeth chattered.
“Aren’t you from Batton Hills?” Jaxon asked.
“Yes,” she replied, tucking her blanket all the more tightly around her to stop her incessant shivering.
“How is it you’re not adapted to this weather, then?”
“I live in a finished home with heating,” she replied. “Who is accustomed to sleeping in the cold like this? I can barely feel the heat from your heater.”
Jaxon sighed heavily, throwing back the blanket. “Come on, then.”
“What?”
“Come down here. It’s warmer with two.”
She paused for just a moment, but the cold got the better of her, and she ended up joining him on the floor. He was right; itwaswarmer with two.
“You’re to imagine a dividing line between us, though…” he said, once she joined him. “You stay on your side, and I’ll stay on mine.”
Rolling her eyes, Teagan wrapped herself in the blanket she’d brought with her, and started scooting around to get comfortable.
Once she had, Jaxon sighed aloud, swatting at his face. “Your hair has broken the rules.”
“Not my fault,” she retorted, reaching back to sweep it out of the way and readjusting herself until she was finally comfortable. But once she’d done so, she felt her eyes growing heavier with every second, even with Jaxon griping about her moving around, and breathing, andexistingso close by.
She was just about asleep when a thought suddenly occurred to her.
“Jaxon?”
“Hmm?”
“You don’t think Eric would see my car here and cause trouble for you, do you?”
“No,” he blurted. “And that’s not just because I was almost asleep. It’s because Eric doesn’t know where I live anymore, and that’s how I like it.”
“You’re sure?”
“I’m positive. He’d have been more likely to hide in your car and follow you here that way.”
She could feel him cringe beside her almost as soon as he’d said it. And while she knew in the back of her mind that such a thing was nearly impossible, she knew why he was cringing. Because of what she was about to say.
“You don’t think he could have, do you?”
“No. No. Nope. Not at all.”
His words were too fast. He was placating her.
