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"Faker," she said

"You’re stronger than you look"

"You have to be to wrestle with Scottish deerhounds"

"Those dogs are horses"

"They aren’t nearly as easy to saddle and ride"

Wes started to say so but closed his mouth when they heard Søren’s voice in the hallway

"Nesichah?"

Laila sat up immediately and raced to the door

"I’ out into the hall "Wes was checking my face"

Her uncle cupped her chin and turned her face toward the hall light

"It’s healing well You should go to bed Wesley needs his sleep, too"

"I will Promise"

He kissed her on the forehead and walked down the hall

Laila went back into Wes’s room

"What was that he called you?" Wes asked "Nesichah?"

"It’s Hebrew It means ‘princess’ He’s always called hed at a joke only he seeood he calls her Malcah Thatwild he calls her Behehed as Laila laid back down on the bed He didn’t seeet rid of her, and for her part she kind of wanted to stay in bed with hiet muscle atrophy in only a feeeks They’d probably need to work out in bed if they stayed here She had a few ideas for some exercises they could do

"Gitte’s a little hyperactive We’re hoping she grows out of it"

"I would have loved sos Brothers or sisters"

"You’re alone?"

"Yeah Lots of cousins Tons of cousins but no siblings Monant and et over it And I don’t think she ever did She didn’t want to try again"

"I love Gitte when I don’t want to kill her You could get married and have kids"