Fury muffled a shriek as a hand covered her mouth. Then she muffled another as she tried to rise from the bed and her forehead collided with hard bone in the shadowed darkness.

"Ouch! Jesus," a male voice said. "Keep still, will you?"

"Flint? What the¡X"

"Shh."

"Would you mind telling me what you're doing here?"

"I came to say goodbye to the mother of my child, sweetheart." His soft, warm breath brushed her lips. "You didn't think that was it earlier, did ...