Blood Redemption (Angel's Edge #3)
“Exhaustion hit me in a wave, threatening to pull me under. I tried to remember the last time I’d slept, truly slept, and couldn’t. Fighting and running in the Dreamtime didn’t exactly count as restful. I couldn’t remember the last time I’d eaten, either; this fact announced itself in the form of a loud, angry growl coming from my stomach. By my own reckoning, I had only been gone for a few days, but those days took their toll all at once. I swayed where I stood.
Cassandra reached for me immediately. She didn’t bother with stupid questions, just gently steered me into the front room of the Lodge, then paused to put her free hand on her hip and glare at me as if I had already dared to disagree with her.
“You’re going to eat some breakfast and have a rest,” she announced like a woman who was rarely disobeyed. “We’ll find you some clean clothes, and a bath, too.”
Her nose wrinkled ever so slightly as she looked at my torn and, by this time, filthy gown.
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