My Strength, My Power, My Love by Linda Mooney

Author:Linda Mooney [Mooney, Linda]
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2010-02-13T07:03:50+00:00

Chapter 17

Stranded

The temperature inside the ship was rapidly growing colder. Rowe's suit kicked on the heat, and the gust of warm air going up his nose was enough to rouse him. He fought the fogginess and moved each limb slowly to check for any sign of broken bones or internal injuries. Gods, he hurt, but there wasn't any sharp pain to let him know something wasn't right.

His next thought was of Grey. He couldn't sense anything from her, and fear reared its ugly head. Rowe panicked.

"Grey!"

He reached for the seat when his arms started drifting upward. It finally sunk in that they'd crashed, but somehow the flit had miraculously remained intact. At the moment they were hanging upside-down in their seats, held into place by their harnesses.

It was also pitch dark.

Rowe reached for the interior lights and flicked the switch. A barely perceptible blueish glow filled the cockpit. Unbuckling his harness, Rowe slowly slid out of his seat and eased onto the cockpit roof. In this position he could crawl underneath Grey and check her vitals.

His hands were trembling when he lifted her helmet to gaze at her face. A tiny amount of condensation fogged her faceplate from the inside. The knot inside his chest eased, 166

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allowing the tears to sting his eyes. She was alive. Thank all the heavens, she'd survived the crash.

"Grey, can you hear me?"

The crash must have severed communications. He grabbed her shoulders and gave her a little shake. Her head lolled back and forth, but she remained unresponsive. Bits of frost were starting to form inside her faceplate, which told him her suit wasn't functioning properly. Unless he could fix it, she could freeze to death.

He glanced down at the instrument panel. The readouts were black. It was impossible to tell what, if anything, still worked. First things first, though. He had to get Grey out of her seat and into someplace warm.

He unhooked her from her harness and let her drop into his arms. There was no longer any need to watch where or how they touched. They'd crash landed gods knew where, and if they had any chance of surviving long enough to get back to Bellac, they needed to use any and all skills available to them, including the ones they had yet to discover as union mates.

Her left arm hung at an awkward angle. Lowering her to the roof, he carefully checked it from wrist to elbow. It was definitely broken. The bone in her lower arm moved unnaturally. He managed to scramble to the back of the ship and find the emergency aid kit. Taking the single small cuff, he slipped it over her arm before inflating it. The cuff would keep her arm rigid enough to allow the bone to knit. There was little else he could do for her until she gained consciousness.

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Giving a huge sigh, Rowe tried to open the secondary hatch in the bottom of the cockpit, which had gone from being the floor to becoming the ceiling.

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