Chapter 12Cailean awoke to the sound of voices outside the bedroom. The most persistent was Dacia’s as she insisted she had to see Papa Cail “Right now, ‘cause he was hurt.”
He knew he probably had two minutes at best before she won the argument, and wondered if he could undress and then get dressed again in clean clothes before it happened. Easing back the covers, which he didn’t remember having been over him when he’d gone to sleep, he discovered he was nude. That would make things easier, and he mentally thanked his husband. He sat up and checked his arm. There was only a fine line left to prove he had been sliced by Altair’s blade. For a moment he felt dizzy but shook it off as he made it to the dresser to get jeans and a shirt, which he managed to put on seconds before Dacia burst in
