Alexa had never slept as comfortably as she had the rest of the night and when the first rays of the dawn tickled at her eyelids, she was reluctant to allow them to pull her from her slumber. That was until her blanket tightened around her waist.
The hand she was comfortably leaning on slid from beneath her head and down her torso until it came into contact with pure muscle. 'Snake' was the first thought in her head and just as she was about to squeal the snake’s mouth opened and captured her hand in … another hand?
That was definitely another hand, a much larger one at that. It dwarfed her fists in its grasp and intertwined her thin, fragile fingers between thick strong fingers.
Now more confused than ever, and down a limb, the redhead allowed her eyes to slide open but saw no sign of her assailant. She wriggled beneath the weight of the arm flung across her waist until she found the wall of muscle the arm belonged to.
