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.A chilly hand pressed against her forehead. You re burning up.Burning with desire.Through slitted eyes, she regarded Constantine.The man proved quiteattractive in daylight. You re cute.His brows rose. Excuse me? And polite.Do you have a girlfriend? She squirmed on the bed as fire coursed through herveins. I really don t see that it s any of your business.Aria s lips curved as she stretched out. I hope you don t because she wouldn t like it if she knewI was sleeping in your bed. I don t have a girlfriend, so you needn t worry. Me, worry? She giggled, a bubbly sound that went with the floating sensation inside her head. I d kick her ass.I don t share. I think you re delirious. I think you re right, she mumbled.It didn t take his remark for her to realize her thinking seemedoff. We really should call a doctor. No doctor.No one can know where I am.Not even Thea. She flailed her hands and gripped hisloose T-shirt. Promise me you won t tell.Promise.He blew out a breath. This is crazy.You need a doctor.You ve got the swamp fever. So give me some pills.Just swear you won t tell anyone I m here.You ll be in danger.Everyoneis in danger. I ve got some antibiotics from when I cut myself on the job.I didn t need them, but theemergency room doctor was a normal dude and didn t know that.I ll go grab them.Don t goanywhere.Princess, guard her.As if Aria could go anywhere.Her limbs felt weighted, concrete filling her bones.Something blew hotly in her face, and she opened eyes she didn t realize had shut to see a tinyfurry face glaring at her. What do you want? she muttered.Grrr. Don t worry, squeaky toy, the feeling is mutual.And she was obviously more delusional than she realized, seeing as how she conversed with adog, if something that wouldn t even make a meal could be called a dog.Something wet and chilly slopped onto her forehead. Open your mouth. Fingers probed at herlips, and she spread them enough for him to slide some pills into her mouth.The bitter taste had hergrimacing and complaining. Oh, gross. Drink. The stern command came as he lifted her upper body and pressed the rim of a glassagainst her lips.She swallowed.She didn t have a choice.It was that or drown. You re mean, she muttered. Says the girl I ve done nothing but help so far. I need a phone. While her body seemed determined to melt into a puddle of useless goo, hermind got moments of clarity.To her surprise, he pulled a cell phone from his pocket.She grabbed it with shaking hands thatdropped it. Fuck. Not now, you re kind of sick, Constantine retorted. You are not funny.But you re still cute. Ugh.Someone shoot her.It seemed she couldn t trusther mouth to keep her inner thoughts secret. So cute I ll help you dial.What s the number?Number? Dammit.She didn t remember her boss s number by heart.It was programmed in herphone, and she no longer had that sucker.Which again sucked because it was only a few months old.It would cost her a fortune to buy out her stupid contract.Fingers snapped in front of her. Earth to Aria, come in, Aria.She turned her gaze back to him, trying to focus but having a hard time. Would you stop moving?she complained. I m not.You re sick and need to lie down. Not until I call Thea.I need to know she s safe.I worried her the last time I called, and Ishouldn t have done that.But I had to.Just in case I didn t come back. You are back now.You re safe. Safe? Again, the hysterical laughter burst free. No one is safe.I have to stay away from her.Ishould stay away from you, too. She swung her legs over the edge of the bed, only to have themimmediately moved back onto the mattress. You re not going anywhere. You don t understand, they re looking for me. Who is? The monsters. She slapped a hand over her mouth.She shouldn t have told him about that. I know about the monsters, Aria. You do?He nodded. I ve been looking for them for a while now, but have not had any luck.Do you knowwhere they are? Yes. They were in cages.A whole row of them. Where, Aria?She opened her mouth, but instead of spewing words, she spewed water.In other circumstances, she might have been appalled that she d tossed the meager contents of hertummy on the man trying to help her, but given her limbs chose that moment to go spastic, sheconcentrated more on not biting her tongue off.But uncontrollable spasms didn t mean she didn t utter a very apt,  Fuck!Chapter 6ANOTHER MAN MIGHT HAVE TAKEN offense to the fact that the woman he loaned his bed tobarfed on his favorite T-shirt  I [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]