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“Just a wee nap” Alastair shifted out fro her they weren’t lovers Or friends Or anything at all to each other He looked away and spoke to the darkness “My head is splitting”

Rainne sed the rejection—after all, she was the one who’d rejected hiive you aspirin If your brain is bleeding, it will make it worse”

“My brain isn’t bleeding” He lifted his right arht bandage she’d wound around his wrist while he’d been asleep

“I really was out cold, huh?” Alastair’s eyes snapped to hers “Wait a minute What to do you mean you’re not allowed?”

“I spoke to Joe Barone; he works for Lake—”

“I knoho Joe is How did you speak to him? Are the phones back on?” He looked around the room as he spoke “Still no power”

Rainne pointed at the wall “The intercom works We can talk to the castle”

“You ht have mentioned that first”

“We’ve been talking one whole minute, Alastair It isn’t like I waited hours”

He shot her a look that said he thought otherwise “What did he tell you?”

“Not to give you aspirin and not to let you move around too much in case you ”

He stared at her for a second “Not about un?”

“Oh” Her cheeks burned “Of course There’s more than one of theone inside the castle They seeet help”

Alastair struggled to his feet He still wasn’t as steady as she would have liked Rainne went to fetch him a can of Coke from the lockers while he checked to see if his jeans were dry He turned the every few minutes, to make sure they dried evenly Rainne tried not to look at hi there in his underwear But it was a small room and there wasn’t anywhere else to look

“You’ve changed,” she blurted, then felt her cheeks burn