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“I’ll get the ice,” she exclaimed.

“You will not,” Tobias snapped.

“Stay there,” Jenner said at the same time.

Sheesh. They didn’t have to be quite so bossy. Or grouchy.

“Just trying to help,” she muttered.

“No helping. You’re the one who is injured,” Jenner said.

“I’m not injured. It’s just a bit of a bruise.”

“I’ll get the ice,” Tobias stated, standing.

He headed out of the room and Immy’s shoulders drooped. She was such an idiot. Why had she run off like that? So he’d slapped her ass. So what? It wasn’t like she hadn’t dreamed of someone doing that to her for years.

It was only . . . she’d thought Jenner would be the one to do it.

And now everything was all messed up in her head.

She was messed up.

“Immy? Are you all right? Did Tobias do something to you? You can tell me,” Jenner said, crouching in front of her. “I’ll take care of it if he did.”

Lord, he was beautiful.

It honestly stole her breath.

“He didn’t do anything,” she said honestly. “If anything, I’m the one behaving badly toward him.”

Jenner frowned. “I doubt that.”

“It’s true. I said something that wasn’t nice and then I ran after him . . . outside.”

Concern filled his face. “Baby, into the dark?”

She nodded. To her shock, tears dripped down her cheeks. “S-sorry.”

“Why are you apologizing?” Jenner sat on the bed next to her and lifted her into his lap. “Hey, hey now. Everything is okay. But what happened?”

“I . . . I think I fainted.”

“You think you fainted?” he repeated. “Is your fear getting worse?”

“I don’t know. Maybe? I couldn’t breathe and I just . . . everything went dark. Then I woke up in the living room with him and I wouldn’t tell him why I went outside. And . . . I don’t know, I just ended up running out of the room because I was embarrassed and then I slipped because I’m wearing this stupid cloak. Another reason I should be embarrassed. What kind of idiot runs around in a cloak, casting stupid spells in her secret room with a fake wand? Me! I’m that dumb idiot.”

“Immy!” Jenner said, sounding shocked. “Stop that. You can’t talk about yourself like that.”

“I can. Who faints from going outside in the dark? Me! The idiot!”

“Immy.” Tobias’s firm voice as he walked into the room shocked her into silence.

She wasn’t sure she liked his ability to immediately ground her.

He crouched on the floor facing her and set the ice pack on her leg.

“You will stop talking about yourself like that. Now.”