Page 33 of A Cursed Heart
“Would you like me to sleep on the couch?” Mal offered. “It’s quite comfortable.”
“No. Here is fine… I… just… ignore me. I’m overthinking things.”
Deep down, where I’d never admit it, I wanted to sleep next to Mal. Maybe I was obsessed with him, like a new toy or something. Once the novelty wore off, I’d go back to normal.
“Do you want to talk about it?”
“Not really. I’m… it’s just been a wild day. Wow, I can’t believe I’ve only known you a day.”
Mal had slotted seamlessly into the holes in my life already. It didn’t make sense.
“Do you regret it? Picking up the stone?”
I took a moment to think about that. With everything I was feeling, all that had happened in the last day, did I wish I hadn’t picked up the ruby? When I thought of Mal being under Salvatore’s control. Of missing out on the time we’d spent together. Even Freya’s smiles and drawings with Mal. I realized I couldn’t regret a moment of it.
“No. I’m glad you’re here.”
“I am too.”
