Stolen By Her Alien Mate by Kat Baxter & Emma Lee Jayne

Author:Kat Baxter & Emma Lee Jayne [Baxter, Kat & Jayne, Emma Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-09-18T00:00:00+00:00

chapter

seven

JOEY

Holy shitballs!

Not only had creepy Brandon found out where I lived, but Kael was here too. And they had fought. Over me. I’m struggling to wrap my head around any of that.

My reality has never been men fighting to see who could have me. I mean, I’ve only been asked out, on actual dates, like twice. This is something else entirely.

Focus, Joey!

I survey the damage. Brandon is passed out cold, lying on the ground. Kael is wincing as he lifts his shirt and glances under his arm to a significant wound on his left flank.

“Shit, did he stab you?” I ask.

Kael looks up, frowns and shakes his head. “No, just exacerbated an old injury. Think he might have broken a rib or two though with that iron bar of his.” This time he lifts his shirt to reveal skin that is already bruising.

“Ouch, that looks very painful.”

He’s also got several small cuts all over his torso, arms and hands.

“Let’s get you upstairs, and I can clean off those wounds and see if you need to go to the hospital,” I say. I wrap my arm around his back and help him over to the steps that lead up to my apartment. “Can you manage to climb these?”

He looks down at me. “My Joey, I could carry you up these stairs on my back. These are minor injuries.”

“Sure,” I say, with a snort. Still, I lead him up the stairs, then use the keys to unlock my door. Then I deposit him on my decrepit sofa that’s more springs than cushion at this point. It makes a groaning sound when Kael drops his weight onto it.

“You stay here and I’ll go get my first aid kit.” I dash off to the bathroom where I happen to have an actual kit that I bought on a whim one time. The practical side of me determined that it would come in handy for minor things so I could skip a doctor’s visit myself. I don’t have the money for that kind of luxury.

Practical Joey for the win.

By the time I make it back out to my small living room, the big guy has his head tilted back and his big man feet and his big man boots on my coffee table. Okay, it’s not so much a table as it is a piece of plywood over some cinder blocks. I’m crafty!

I sit down beside him, carefully tucking the skirt of my knee-length sundress under my thighs. Don’t be too impressed that I’m in a sundress. It’s not fancy. In this heat, it’s just practical. Even though it’s fall, and even though it rained yesterday, the weather is sweltering again. Since I walk to and from campus for my classes to save on gas, I need all the ventilation I can get. Now, with Kael so close, I wish I’d worn something that exposed less of my skin.

I open the kit and examine the cuts along his hands and his forearms.

“This is not necessary,” he says.

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