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“But you were fine,” she noted.
“My night vision is better than yours,” he said, shrugging. “And when I let him, my dragon can extend his other senses farther than usual to make up for any darkness.”
She blinked at him, trying to imagine what that would be like.
“How does that feel?” she asked. “The dragon, I mean.”
He frowned.
“It feels like another part of myself stepping forward,” he told her. “But not fully. It’s more like he’s looking out of the window of the craft while I pilot it.”
“Wow,” Jade said. “Like a copilot.”
“I guess so,” he replied.
They stood in the darkness a little longer, and it suddenly occurred to her just how small the space was.
Now that her adrenaline was fading, the attraction she felt for the big guard was taking over her senses once more. She could practically feel the heat of him from a few feet away.
What would it be like to let go and just fall into his arms?
“Gus has been sleeping for a long time,” she said, trying to change the subject in her own mind. “Is that normal?”
“For an Imberian, yes,” Rafe said. “He sleeps much more than a dragonet, more than a Terran whelp too, I think. He will awaken and let you know if he’s hungry.”
She nodded and looked around.
It was going to be a long night without a crib. It didn’t feel right to sleep with the baby in the sling when she was so tired.
Rafe strode across the room and pressed a button.
A large drawer slid out from the wall.
“This can be used as a bed for the boy,” he said. “When you’re ready to put him down.”
“That sounds like a good idea,” she said.
She moved to join him, but the train must have been taking a curve, and she stumbled slightly.
The next thing she knew, Rafe was holding her in his strong arms.
“Are you okay?” he asked her in that intense way, for the second time in an hour.
“Fine,” she managed.
But she wasn’t fine. She was drowning in a sea of sensation, desperate to press closer to him.
Thank the gods I’m holding my son, she thought to herself, using all the willpower she had to pull back.
Rafe dropped his hands from her as if she were hot to the touch, and stepped away, giving her space to place the baby in the bed.
She willed herself to breathe fully and evenly and focus her attention on little Gus. She lowered him carefully into the bed, amazed that he didn’t awaken, even when she took her hands away.
In the glow of the orb Rafe still held between his hands, she could just see the shape of Gus’s pillowy cheeks and the little bow of his sweet mouth.
A wave of love crashed through her, so intense it almost weakened her knees. She stood over him and watched him sleep, losing track of time.
“You should get to bed, too,” Rafe suggested after a little while, his voice deep, but gentle.
