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Five minutes later she was pissed and kind of impressed, but pissed nonetheless that she couldn’t open it She tossed it back in the bag, sealed it and gently slid it back in his pocket before she turned her attention to his bag Of course he had a small survival kit with matches and stuff, but that stuff would have to wait until she figured out a way to get hiround and further away from the water

Or maybe she should just start a fire and hope soht as she looked through the rest of his bag When she spotted a large black handgun she paused If he didn’t wake up anytime soon it would be up to her to defend theun, careful to keep her fingers as far away froray rock beside her

She pulled a large black tee shirt out of his bag and laid it over his chest, having absolutely no idea what to do, but she knew she had to get hi him up the hill

She had to try There was no way she could leave him to freeze She didn’t knowwet in the cold Septeht, but she needed to try

Hoping like hell that she didn’t rabbed him by arms and nearly whimpered when she couldn’t wrap her hands around his rabbed his backpack once again, praying that it wouldn’t snap

Why the hell was he so cold?

He opened his eyes and was met with pitch black Oh shit, was he blind? he wondered as the mattress beneath him shivered His chest hurt every ti pain in his lung was gone

By the feel of it, the ribs were still broken, but his lung felt healed, at least healed enough not to ress Soft tissue injuries always healed the fastest, but they still required rest and ti out as a hoarse whisper

His h

"You scared the hell out ofboth relieved and scared

"What’s going on? Where are we?" he asked, wrapping an arm around his chest as he tried to sit up, but his daht where he was

"Oh, youhell out of me?" she demanded

"Yeah, that," he said dryly as he tried to look around and failed

Going by the cold air being softly blown over his body and sound of water rushing by they were still by the river Did she ever fking listen?

"I thought I told you to run, Munchkin You shouldn’t be here," he bit out, wishing he could haul her over his knees and spank the hell out of the beautiful ass of hers

She let out a cute little snort as she hugged his shouldersto run off and leave you defenseless?"

Defenseless………

That was the wrong fking choice of words to use on hio hated memories threatened to surface and he shoved thenored hiht the fk off

"I wasn’t defenseless," he spat out through chattering teeth