Magic, New Mexico: Touching Topper (Kindle Worlds Novella) (My Crazy Alien Romance Book 2) by Donna McDonald

Author:Donna McDonald [McDonald, Donna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2017-01-31T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 6

The first hour she shivered. During the second hour, after the twilight nearly disappeared, Topper began to seriously feel the cold. Normally, she’d have felt super sorry for herself, but she couldn’t under the circumstances. The dogs got slower and slower, but they never stopped.

When Mercury finally slowed and then ceased walking altogether, Topper was worried for all of them. They were in the middle of nowhere, in the barely moonlit dark, and out in the open with the exception of a snow covered thicket of evergreen trees sheltering them on one side.

You could see the real effects of the weather on the landscape that hadn’t seen any travelers in a while. Snow had drifted into high walls against the incline where the woods rose.

Stark said nothing to her as he climbed off the sled. He walked to the front and released Mercury from the harness, petting the dog. Mercury walked off a ways, stretched, and then groaned. Guilt softened her heart because the animals had done most of the work to make sure they survived.

Determined not to complain, or be a burden, Topper forced her cold limbs to help her climb out of her seat. She moved to the opposite side of the sled, stretching her limbs much as Mercury had. Together, she and Stark unhooked all of the dogs. Once free, they milled about using the bathroom and sniffing at the packed snow.

She watched Stark lift a hand and heard him speak words she didn’t understand. Evidently the dogs did because they stopped and gave him their full attention. When he stopped talking, they went back to their browsing, but none of them walked far away.

Topper stared at her husband in awe. Stark’s alien powers were just as amazing as her magic. Or at least they were to her. “What can I do to help get us settled for the night?”

Stark stepped over the harness to get to her. He lifted a gloved hand to her bare cheek.

“Get back under the covers on the sled until I get us a shelter built,” he said.

“Can’t sit anymore. I need to walk off my leg cramps.” Topper caught his hand when Stark went to move away. “Build it big enough for the dogs too. I don’t want them to have to sleep out in the cold.”

Stark gave her a strange look and she nearly laughed.

“You’re open to sharing your living space with them?”

Topper nodded. “We owe these dogs our lives. I don’t want anything to happen to them.”

Stark smiled, his breath visible in the cold. “Building a shelter won’t take me long. I’ve been saving up my energy for just this sort of effort.”

He walked several hundred feet away from the sleigh and waded directly into a snow bank taller than he was. Topper held her breath, wondering what on Earth he was doing covering himself up in what had to be a ten foot snow drift.

Then millions of white flakes lifted to swirl around him, forming a spinning circle.

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