I pressed my face into the crook of his shoulder, acutely aware of his body against mine and the fact that I had never been this close to a man before. Unless you counted that time I healed Roland, but I didn’t think holding a half-crazed werewolf fell into the same category.
“There are too many of them,” Sahir said a minute later in a muffled voice.
“Keep spraying us,” Nikolas ordered.
“I can’t. It’ll poison you two if I spray more around you.” I heard Sahir move away. “I’ll do what I can to reduce their numbers. What the hell is wrong with them? Why are they only going after her?”
“I don’t know.” Nikolas shifted his weight and surprised me by leaning in and sniffing at my hair first and then my hoodie. How he expected to smell anything over the stench was beyond me. “Something smells
