The Alien Who Fell to Earth by Fiona Roarke

Author:Fiona Roarke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sugar Skull Books
Published: 2017-08-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

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Victoria got some food to go from Mummy’s Diner. It wasn’t time for breakfast, but she wanted one more meal of blueberry pancakes before leaving Nocturne Falls. In the past weeks, she’d tried several of the other restaurants in town, but her two favorites were Mummy’s and Howlers. She also ordered a triple side of chewy, thick bacon. She could eat one order all by herself; based on the size of her “husband,” she ordered him two. If Holden didn’t want his, she’d help him finish. If wasting bacon was not a crime, it should be.

She entered the motel room to find him sitting on the foot of the bed with his head in his hands.

“Headache still?”

“Yep.” But the moment she opened the bag he sniffed and sighed. “Smells great. Food might cure me.” He got up and helped her put the white to-go boxes on the room’s small round table. There was only one chair, so they pulled the table to the corner of the bed, where he sat back down.

If Holden cared about eating blueberry pancakes for an afternoon meal, he didn’t say anything. He wolfed down his food, including the two sides of bacon, and didn’t once complain, but Victoria could tell his head was hurting.

Dr. Painter had given him a few pain pills when he was released, but they were to be taken only once he’d eaten.

“Hilda said you regaled her and the rest of the nurses with romantic stories about us.” He licked syrup off his bottom lip.

“Did she? Well, I felt like I had to tell them something to fill in the silence, since you didn’t talk much.”

“Tell me what you told them.”

“Why?”

He shrugged. “What if I run into someone at the hospital tomorrow and they ask me a question?”

“We probably won’t even go.”

“But if we do, just in case…” He smiled and her tummy plummeted to her knees. “Seems like I should know what stories you’ve been telling about me while I was sleeping.”

“Okay, fine.” She told him the general history of their life together that she’d stuck to faithfully for almost a month. Then Victoria called up the top three fabricated stories she’d repeated to the nursing staff at Nocturne Falls General Hospital to add some authentic-sounding details.

“I told them the very cute story about how we met.” She related the spur of the moment tale about meeting him in a parking lot in the rain and how gallant he’d been to try to shield her from the downpour only to have his umbrella flip inside-out in the wind, drenching them both.

“Then I told them about running away to get married because we just couldn’t wait for a big production of a wedding, even though my mother has never truly forgiven us and talks regularly about an elaborate renewal-of-our-vows ceremony.” She certainly didn’t want to call up—or invent on the fly—the fine details of wedding party names, dress colors, cake flavors or honeymoon destinations.

He laughed, but Victoria could see the pain shadowing the amusement in his eyes.

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