Struggling to shake the thought, she got up. Deciding to take Adrian's advice once she recalled it, she grabbed a robe and headed into the bathroom to take a long, hot shower. While she waited for the water to heat, she dug through the boxes until she found extra strength pain reliever, took a dose, and then got into the shower. The hot water didn't exactly tame her raging hormones, but it did relax her muscles and the discovery that Seth and Cameron had been an audience to Adrian's kiss had already gone a long way toward cooling her ardor. When she'd dried off and wrapped in her robe, she opened the door cautiously, peered down the hall and darted across it and into her room. Discarding the robe at the door, she headed to the bed and climbed in. Sprawling face down with a pillow clutched to her, she resolutely closed her mind to all the worries still swarming around in her mind like a stirred beehive and finally dozed. The smell of cooking food emanating from the kitchen roused her before the voices did.
