Defended by the Alien Devil (Brides of the Vinduthi Book 3) by Ava York

Author:Ava York [York, Ava]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-18T23:00:00+00:00

MERA

I stayed crouched behind the dryers until the screams stopped.

“Mera?” Kovas called. “It’s clear now.”

Standing up, I stared at a room painted red. Kovas bent over the largest body, riffling through its pockets.

“He won’t be coming back from the dead this time,” he muttered.

Tiptoeing through the gore, I peered over his shoulder at the corpse, then looked away quickly.

I don’t know. Maybe I’d thought that after the last few days I was getting used to this, but I hadn’t quite been prepared for the Ewani’s head to be completely missing.

“Sorry,” Kovas said gruffly. “I should have cleaned up more before calling you out, but we need to get moving.”

Dammit. I shouldn’t have flinched.

“It’s my own fault,” I said lightly. “You did it to protect me, right? I don’t have any business being weirded out by a little blood.”

Okay. It was a lot of blood. But I was pretty sure my theory was still right. “I’m just glad you weren’t hurt.”

A smile flicked over his lips. “Nothing more than being worried about you.” Straightening up, he handed me a pile of credit spikes.

“Once we’re out of here, we’re going to need money. It only makes sense for these bastards to pay for scaring you.”

Right. Totally logical.

Maybe I was just sleep deprived, but I didn’t argue, just slipped the spikes into the bag we’d taken from Garlku’s quarters a million years ago.

“Let’s head out.” Kovas kicked a clear path through the bodies towards the door, but I held back.

“You can’t go out looking like that,” I argued. “We need to at least wipe the worst of it off of you.”

He glanced down at his arms as if just now seeing the blood. “If you think it’s important.”

“I do.”

He seemed confused by my insistence, but didn’t argue with me spending a few precious minutes scrounging through the piles of clothing to find a replacement for the ruined shirt.

“Here’s a vest that should work, but I’m not sure about any pants.”

I turned to find him wiping his chest down with a length of fabric we’d moistened with the dripping from the pipes above us, and fell silent.

How could anyone be so handsome?

He’d taken off his bandages, and now there was nothing in the way of me seeing those broad shoulders, the sharp cut of his muscles in his back flexing with every move, arms like steel.

He must have sensed my eyes on him.

He turned, crimson eyes narrowed. “Are you all right? Are you hurt?”

Hurrying over to me, he dropped a kiss on my forehead. “You’ll feel better if you wash off, too.” He waved a hand at the lint all around us. “This can’t be good for you either. I should have thought about that.”

I had lots of things to think about while I sponged myself, changing towels midway as the layers of grime rubbed off.

My brain kept circling, even as we left and headed back into the tunnels.

Handsome and kind.

Caring and protective.

Unbelievably sweet.

But once we got back to the real world and he’d

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