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attackers and he’d barely moved. She handed him the wadded strip of cloth. “Press it against the wound until I can get you stitched up.”
    Gaap looked around as if expecting someone to come out of the woods. But nothing happened.
    Finally, he closed his fingers around the smooth cloth and tucked the pad between the waistband of his breeches and his skin.
    “Let’s go.” He limped back toward her cottage.
    Lili followed, hyper-aware that she’d led him straight into this attack. And she understood that he believed she’d known the Fae would be there.
    Adrenaline propelled her legs to move. Even with his injury, Gaap outpaced Lili, keeping to her side so that she remained in his field of vision.
    “In front of me,” he growled.
    As she moved in front of him, he glanced around as if searching for something or someone.
    “Do you think there are more coming?” she asked hesitantly. The adrenaline that helped her keep her head when they were first attacked suddenly overwhelmed her system.
    Her arms, legs, and hands began to shake.
    Lili fisted her hands, ready to defend them. This time, she would be prepared.
    She swung her head from side to side, searching for a threat. With each step, the blade strapped to her thigh called for her to wield it.
    Gaap didn’t answer, just made haste back to her cottage. When they reached the gate to her tiny yard, he paused and executed a hard, assessing sweep of her yard. All she wanted was to get inside the safe haven of her home. Lili reached for the latch on the gate, but his hand stopped her.
    Blood coated his skin and his fingers, clenched around two separate knives, were white beneath the red.
    Everything looked fine to her. The curtain over the sink was still spread wide and the glow from her fireplace cast shadows and light over her meager existence.
    But Lili knew he was looking for threats.
    “You first,” he commanded.
    “You think there’s someone inside?” She couldn’t keep the tremble out of her voice. Shit. So much for the tough girl who’d taken out a Fae.
    “Only one way to find out.” Gaap jerked his chin toward the front door.
    Lili unlocked the door quickly and pushed the heavy oak door open. The homey surroundings of her cottage wrapped around her like a blanket of comfort and warmth. “It’s clear.”
    Gaap staggered into her home.
    Lili glanced at his makeshift compress. His blood had soaked through the thick padding. He was hurt worse than she’d realized. “Oh my Gods.”
    Gaap collapsed into the single chair at the table. A fine sheen of sweat coated his face. “Got any thread?”
    Of course she did, just not the kind that was usually used to stitch up wounds.
    Lili bustled around heating water to disinfect her needles and pulling out the thickest thread she had. She set a glass of water in front of him. With the blood he lost, he needed to replace fluids.
    “Drink.”
    He stared suspiciously at the glass. “You first.”
    “You really think I’m trying to poison you?” She propped her fists on her hips, her earlier feelings of worry were lost in a haze of disbelief.
    His face was a hard mask.
    “For the Gods sake.” She gulped down the glass of water. The liquid hit her parched throat and made her realize how absolutely dehydrated she was as well. She poured another glass and swallowed the contents before re-filling the glass and slamming it down on the table in front of him. “Satisfied?”
    “For now.” He gave her a strange, intense look and drank. The muscles in his throat contracted as he swallowed. He set the glass down on the table and picked up the knife he’d pressed against her just the other evening. “Sew me up.”
    Lili gulped. She’d never sewn flesh before.
    She loosened the laces on his breeches, trying to ignore the impressive bulge of his cock. She’d read that adrenaline could cause this kind of reaction but she’d never seen it herself.
    Gaap peeled off the bloodied tunic.
    Suddenly all of the fear she had