Colliding Worlds Trilogy 02 – Implosion (28 page)

Once finished, her stomach churned as she checked, double-checked, and triple-checked the restraints. Confident the old flannels would hold, she grabbed the gun, headed to the bathroom and grabbed anything that could be used as a medical supply, barely taking her eyes off the man on the bed. Her legs didn’t want to move, but she willed them forward, edging closer and closer until she bumped against the bed and dropped the supplies into a pile on the nightstand.

She was no medic, but the first rule in any accident was to stabilize the patient. Then she’d figure out how to get help here. Hopefully before he woke up. Or died.

With a humorless sigh, she turned her attention back to her patient. His breathing was steady, although not strong by any means. He likely had internal injuries. She felt around his neck for the edge of his mask. Ever so carefully, she rolled it up, and then yanked it off.

That’s when she saw
it
.

His skin looked like he’d taken a shower in liquid gold. Dark tribal-style tattoos swirled over shimmery skin, but there didn’t seem to be a specific design to the way they curved around his neck and onto his face — a face that was masculine and perfect; well, except for a nasty bruise forming around an even nastier swollen eye that was no doubt caused by her boot introducing itself to his face. She brushed his bruised cheek with the back of her fingers, his skin cool to the touch.

Holy. Shit.
First the guy with wings. Now this.

Tattoos were one thing, but she’d never heard of skin dye before, not like this. Even so, this glistening King Midas gold was too pure to be some kind of dye. Even if there were, there seemed no military reason for the anti-stealth glimmer that covered his skin.

No way was this guy real. Despite a successful career in selling the possibility of it, she never really believed in it. There was no such thing as an … an … she could barely even think the word.

Alien.

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