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As the remnants of sleep left me, I noticed I wasn’t lying on a bed. It was hard and lumpy and felt like fur. My eyes shot open and I sucked in a breath. I wasn’t alone. Panic seized me and it took a few seconds to recognise Darion lying on his side sleeping next to me. I felt relief wash over me and I had to force myself to breathe slowly and calm my pounding hearts.
It was kind of weird waking up next to a man, especially one I hardly knew... but then, I did know him. We’d been talking to each other for days. Our minds had been joined in a Mind-link more than once – and there wasn’t any way I could think of to get much closer to another person than that.
I lay there facing him, wondering how all of that had affected the way I felt about him. It made me feel close to him, but the fa
