In Mist by Crystal Jordan

Author:Crystal Jordan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: futuristic shape-shifter erotic romance
Publisher: CJ Books
Published: 2017-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Sera curled into a ball in her bed and buried her head under the covers. After she’d run from Bretton, she’d wanted to put as much distance between them as possible. How clearer could he have made himself? He wasn’t interested. Sex was all she was good for. It hurt, but she had to accept it. Really, finally accept it. She still ached with the soul-deep pain of it after a night’s sleep. Forcing herself to crawl out of bed, she dressed, ate, and walked into her laboratory.

Oeric reported to her lab at the time she’d instructed. She’d canceled the day before because she’d spent a long night in the hospital with Kesuk and the weretigers and weredragons while they waited for news about Jain. The young merman knocked once, stepped through the door, and stood at almost military attention. He didn’t touch anything, kept his hands folded behind his back.

She sighed, scrubbing a hand over her forehead. What was she going to do with this man? All her problems lately seemed to revolve around males. She suppressed a growl and pushed to her feet from the stool she sat on.

“Have you ever done any underwater repairs?” She needed out of the city today, needed to not see Bretton. Reaching for her wet suit, she tucked it under her arm. Then she grabbed her flippers and her small rebreather from their compartments in the wall. The breathing apparatus had arrived this morning in the tubes that connected the shifting chambers with everyone’s personal quarters. Bretton must have gone back for it. She closed her eyes over the pang that clenched her heart.

Oeric blinked at the abrupt question. “Ah, no. But I promise not to get in the way.”

A chuckle bubbled up from her throat. “That was the right answer.”

“I thought as much.”

She nodded and led the way down the corridor to the small dome at the end of the Titan sector. Her two sea skimmers were docked in the dome. One was a single-person skimmer, and the other could hold four. She punched in her authorization code to the second docking hatch. It parted in the middle to reveal the cockpit of the larger skimmer.

Stuffing her gear into the tiny shifting chamber at the rear of the skimmer, she performed the mandatory checks before they could get under way. Oeric sealed the door behind him and then stood to the side and watched her work. She shrugged and ignored him. She’d expected it to feel more…uncomfortable to have him here. The man was enormous, nearly the same size as Kesuk and Nadir—the two largest men she’d ever seen. But Oeric was just calm and silent. After a few moments, she forgot he was there and lost herself in the familiar process.

When she turned, he strapped himself into the copilot’s chair. She plopped into the pilot’s seat and finished the last of the checks. They both put on the headsets that would allow them to hear over the cold fusion engine—the same power source that fueled everything on Aquatilis.

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