“Yeah,” he let out a breath with a deep sigh. “I know.”
He continued around the cluster of bushes and came to a stop on the other side. She hadn’t even noticed there’d been a stream over there. They must have been running almost parallel with it for a while and she hadn’t seen it once. Strange. He lowered her down then, letting her feet touch the ground as she slowly glided along him. If she wasn’t exhausted and ill with infection, she had no doubt a plethora of wicked thoughts would have sprung to mind in response to the feel of his body pressed up so intimately against hers.
“I need to take a look at your leg to see just how bad the infection’s gotten,” he told her, and then he took a tentative step back, keeping his hands on her hips.
“I told you I could walk, so of course I can stan
