Sleeping With the Enemy by Kaitlyn O'Connor

Author:Kaitlyn O'Connor
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780425127926
Published: 2003-04-01T07:00:00+00:00

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If possible, Sybil had a worse headache that evening as she headed back to her quarters. Instead of popping more painkillers, she decided to try to take a catnap. Her mind was so active she thought at first she wouldn’t be able to, especially when she could smell the mingling of her scent and Anka’s on her linens. Eventually, though, the broken rest she’d had the night before caught up with her. She woke to discover she’d slept nearly two hours and the headache wasn’t gone. Maybe she just needed food? She hadn’t eaten much the night before or at lunch.

The temptation to order another tray was strong. Reluctantly, she discarded the idea. The moment she’d thought of food the hope had instantly arisen that Anka might come back, but it was that very thing that drove her from her quarters to dine in the mess with everyone else. She shouldn’t be there if he did decide to come back!

She had a bad feeling that Meachum suspected something and it wouldn’t be good for either of them to be caught together. Not that she was particularly worried about herself. The Sumpturian enclave was restricted to the conference center, though, even if they did have diplomatic immunity. Anka wasn’t supposed to be inside the military complex at all and there was no telling what sort of flap it would cause if he was found there.

Despite her objective in using food as a curative, she found that it only succeeded in dulling the pain a little more. It was tension headache, she decided, not a hunger headache. When she left the mess hall, she headed to the gym for a workout, reminding herself that she was behind in her routine anyway. It took work, and a lot of it, to counteract the effects of micro gravity despite the efforts to create simulated gravity. Without the centrifugal force the rotators created and the workout they got from the magnetic fields, the moon base would’ve been completely impossible, but even with them anyone stationed for a long period had to work out regularly.

Thankfully, the work out took care the tension. Feeling pleasantly tired, Sybil headed back to her quarters and a hot bath. She was sitting in the middle of her bed combing the tangles from her hair when a strange phenomena in the center of her quarters caught her attention. Her heart skipped several beats as the particles solidified, fear and joy instantly at war.

“Anka!”

He grinned at her expression. “My apologies. There are patrols in the corridor or I would’ve had better manners than to enter without permission.”

Sybil sprang from her bed and rushed toward him, gripping his arms a little frantically. “This is bad! This is really bad! You shouldn’t be here!”

He lifted his brows at her but gathered her into his arms, nuzzling her neck. “Does that mean I’m not welcome, my nodia?”

Sybil clutched at him. “Of course it doesn’t! I mean !”

He chuckled. Leaning away, he stroked her cheek lightly.

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