V'Alen by A.G. Wilde

Author:A.G. Wilde [Wilde, A.G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: KU2023
Amazon: B0BV3C1XJC
Publisher: Petronie Publishing
Published: 2023-02-06T05:00:00+00:00

19

When she woke, she was alone.

Alaina squinted, her hand rising as she rubbed her forehead.

The headache was gone. That was a good sign. Whatever V’Alen injected her with had worked so well, she’d even slept.

Sitting upright, her gaze moved to the front of the ship. She could tell he was sitting at the helm, only the top of his head visible in the chair.

Should she say anything? Judging from what her previous test told her, he’d probably already heard her as soon as she woke up.

Try as she might, though, she couldn’t open her mouth to greet him. After last night…

Gripping the cloak to herself, she slid as silently as she could from the sleeping slab, and padded toward the back of the shuttle.

There was a small shower unit there that detached from the wall, unfolding around a section of the ship, and she could take a strange sort of shower that included a blast of disinfectant air that dissolved all impurities.

It only lasted a few seconds, but it would make her clean.

As she reached the shower deck and set the cloak down, she glanced behind her. V’Alen was still at the controls, focused on whatever was in front of him. If he heard her, he was giving her privacy, and she guessed she should make use of it.

Stripping naked, she stepped into the spot for the shower and activated the controls.

There was a soft whirring sound as the barrier came out and circled the area and Alaina sighed as she ran her fingers into her hair.

It was a poofy mess—something her Nigerian mother would have hated and her Caucasian dad would have shrugged about. He’d never understood her mother’s obsession with getting her hair done, but it had been the one thing she’d looked forward to every Sunday.

Sitting between her mother’s legs on the floor while her hair was filled with small plaits and beads.

She missed them. Her parents.

They hadn’t even known about her diagnosis. She hadn’t had the guts to tell them their only child was going to leave the Earth in just three short months.

How was she to have known that she’d be literally leaving the Earth even sooner than that? That she’d be lost in space, far away.

But, at least now, they wouldn’t have to see her go. They wouldn’t have to see the illness rip her apart and lose her at the end, too.

The headaches…the nausea…

Glancing down at herself, she knew she’d gotten thinner as well.

Sighing, she closed her eyes as the first blast of air hit her. It was warm and tickled her skin just enough for her to pull her thoughts away from the dark place they were falling into.

It was only when some presence made her senses tingle did she open her eyes and look behind her.

V’Alen.

He wasn’t at his station anymore. And he’d moved so silently, she hadn’t heard him approach.

Alaina’s eyes widened as another blast of hot air hit her at that very moment, and she had no choice but to squeeze her eyes shut tight.

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