Chapter 4
“I’m so sorry,” Carly whispered about an hour later as they sat across from each other in the living area of his rooms.
Drago lowered the cold, damp cloth he was holding against his cheek and glared at her. She gazed back at him with wide, contrite eyes. Her bottom lip was slightly rosy from biting on it.
He had never lost consciousness. Instead, he had lain there breathing deeply and waited for the pain to subside. He had also been trying to keep as low a profile as he could from Carly.
After she scared the first rodent out of the room, she had searched the rest of the room to make sure there were no other creatures lying in wait to cause him grief. All the while, she had begged for his forgiveness and asked him continuously if he was ‘okay’. He wasn’t sure what the word mea
