Chapter 41

The shower wheezed off some time later and he pulled himself out of bed to get dressed. He was packing his bag into the car when she appeared in the doorway. She’d already buttoned herself into her coat and was simply looking at him from the doorway. “Are you ready to go? “He asked her as she stepped down into the snow. “The streets are safe to drive on and we can still make the halfway point before dark if we leave now.”

“It is as you will it.” Ardala stepped closer to him and looked at him with those sharply intelligent eyes briefly before she popped up on her toes and rubbed her nose against his briefly before stepping back. “Is the affection acceptable?”

He rubbed at the end of his nose where the heat of her skin lingered. “What was that for?”