Chapter 70

“Brianna?How are you feeling?”Merrin asked even as she reached for my wrist and pressed her fingers firmly there as if she was trying to check for a pulse.

“I...I feel...dreadful,”I admitted.

Merrin,seemingly happy with my pulse,removed her fingers from my wrist and placedher palm against my forehead.

“Your pulse is a little elevated,but that’s to be expected,and you don’t appear to have a temperature.”Though she spoke to me,it was almost as if she was thinking out loud.

Booth stood behind her,gazing over her shoulder at me as though he was frightened to take his eyes away.

“I’d like to keep you for observation overnight,”Merrin suggested,but her toneindicated that I didn’t really have a choice.

“Merrin?”A deep,silky voice caused us all to jump,and as one we all turned to look at the door.

Standing in the doorway was the drop dead gorgeous lecturer Tomas.

“Celestria has requested your presence in her chambers,”he explained.