Chapter 6
“We need calories,” Krista groaned; groaned because she didn’t want to leave their idyll in the woods.
“And sleep,” Evan noted.
“Wish you hadn’t said that.” They’d been awake for most of the last three days except for the six hours between when the Deerness Fire lay down and the sun came up. Now she could feel every muscle sagging with weariness, both from the fire and from the unaccustomed, but very welcome exercise they had just performed.
“C’mon, Rook,” she rolled to her feet and offered him a hand up.
That got a low laugh from him.
“See, Mama Krista got what it takes to cure them ills,” she shook her hips like a belly dancer.
When she turned for her clothes he came up behind her and scooped his hands around and up over her breasts.
“Enough of that. We know what you li
